Hello,My prospective tenant found to have "Offense 1" criminal record, while he has a job in a well known reputable company in Santa Clara county, California, he and his friends are applying for our four bedroom house, other than this, credit score and income are fine.Should I rent my house to him and his friends?

How much do you really need to know before you get started talking to sellers and prospecting for deals?

Begin the relationship on a positive win-win note.As for screening tenants, your reply post suggest your are overstating your thoughts or have been sadly misled.Learning how to have an informative casual conversation with the prospective tenant and then listening more than talking is more revealing than all the paperwork will reveal.

If you are wholesaling work those leads fully independent of anything you are doing as an agent, other than disclosing that you are licensed.Grey areas I can see are if you get a lot of prospects that won't work as wholesales but would be possible retail listings.

(I prefer to have the prospective tenants do the call themselves, so I don't get "but you said the gas was only $xx/mo..." later on!)

So I don't want to start out by doing something that could potentially hurt my reputation and ability to find prospective buyers.In terms of estimating rehab costs, My approach for single families is to rehab at the higher end (new custom cabinets/SS appliances/ granite counter tops/updated bathroom/ higher end flooring.)

He is self-employed, and basically is a dinosaur in an industry that just doesn't have great long-term prospects in my opinion.

Hi, I have one prospect that has sent me a rental application/documents and I had sent them an invite from a tenant screening company.

The days of true prospective buyers getting in the car on a Sunday afternoon and driving aimlessly around areas they might want to buy a house in are long gone, 99% of buyers today do their searching online and then set up showings.As far as advertising goes, I also see that as something on its way out for the most part.

I personally just put 2 properties under contract and have shown them to prospective investors, but will rehab and flip if no one buys them.