I am closing on a property soon and have been showing an available unit and the garage to potential tenants. My current applicant for the garage has multiple misdemeanors and a couple felonies.If this would be for a h...

When househacking if you don’t want to have bad tenants, it all started with the screening.

Usually if there are problems it is around Internet Explorer (such a terrible browser even MS abandoned it), touch screens (our html5 for touch isn't great), or virus tools interfering.

Sometimes it can be a red flag so make sure to screen the landlord questions carefully. 

I'm new in this business, and as part of the screening process I know I have to get the tenant's background check.

Make sure to screen the tenants though.  

Remind him he is jointly responsible for the lease until it ends or they find someone else who meets your screening criteria to take his place.

My best way of renting out furnished houses is giving my potential renters a sales pitch when they come in for a pre-employment drug screen. 

Granted not 30 text messages in row everyday but as I had stated, these were contacts that I had not communicated with in probably over 6 months and needed to get up to speed with all of them on something at the same time.I can't tag him here but Filipe Pereira started a thread yesterday about how he screened 300+ tenants with  zero phone calls for free using a combo of Google Voice text and Google Forms and email as a Property Manager.

This experience did teach me a lesson that I don't want to deal with tenants, or, at least after listening to Bigger Pockets...........purchase properties and properly screen tenants ahead of time.Anyhow................Hi Everyone!