I actually own two rental properties - the other one that I've had for about 10 years is in a different state - but the management company there does the basic screening with their own guidelines for all their owners, then presents the candidate.

As I run my rentals like a business, generally I don't think it makes financial sense to take a tenant to court to sue for these costs as most times when something like this happens, they don't exactly leave a forwarding address to deliver the notice in the first place in addition to the fact that after I pay the management company to take them to court (or my attorney to sue), even if i "win" they are not going to have money to pay it - blood from a stone.

In my opinion, it's not worth my property sitting an extra month to wait on the one tenant who is willing to pay that when I have screened and found other quality tenants.

Using this form will keep you in compliance and put the responsibility on the screening company to communicate and correspond with the applicant if there are any issues.

Animals can be a nice source of income if screened properly.

I love investing, but screening tenants has to be (for me) the worst part of investing.

I had him fill out a bunch of pre-screening questions that I pulled from this forum like intended stay, why are you leaving current place and everything checked out.

So, I am looking for a new screening company; I was using a company my husband got from a friend a few years ago that has never come up in any "what tenant screening company do you use" search I've done.

It is their job to find a sub-leaser in the event of a mid lease move out, and your job to screen and accept the new tenant.

(Which is just another word for "indenting".As I said before, QuickBooks does everything in outline form.You have classes and a sub class:You have customres and jobs Every time you indent in QuickBooks it is called either a subaccount or a job or a sub class.In your Chart of Accounts you will have the Header (Category) and sub Accounts underneath the Header or (Category) Headers and indenting.In the Class feature which keeps track of your individual properties, you list the property as a class, and then (if it's apartment building) you would list the units inside the apartment building as a sub class, (indenting) as the screen shot shows in my other post.