It is important to have all prospective tenants complete the same process (submit application and application fee, provide proof of income, consent to thorough credit/criminal screening, etc) If you have a gut doubt about an applicant, chances are their application/screening will highlight something concrete that you can deny their tenancy (bad credit, insufficient income, criminal record, etc.)

By cellar I mean about 6 ft of head room with bare concrete walls and floors, exposed floor joists overhead, a bare light bulb for light, no outlets, and a half height wall holding the dirt back from the crawlspace area.

Fortunately, the place was habitable and sanitary since there was concrete underneath so I had the right to continue charging rent.

As do good checklists and photos about move-in condition.....The most maintenance free would be bare concrete--maybe with a sealer or finish of some kind, but tenants may not like it.

Unfinished basements are less cost living space since they are cheaper to build than the conventional first and second floor, concrete is cheap!

Failing to install new concrete steps when the old ones have a 5 degree slope so a guest slips on ice and falls and beaks a hip, failing to turn down the temperature on the coffee pot after 2 customers complained and received 3rd degree burns(the McDonalds case).

If it's in the rougher parts of that town, you're going to have that less polished sort of tenant.

To Craig , in my area you can find plenty of concrete guys with no work.

I don't like agents who look like they've gone too far on the design and forgotten their core business... but yours could, perhaps, do with some polish.

Anyway, gimme a good multi unit with concrete patios any day!