My father-in-law recently had tenants break contract and leave early. Among many other issues, we found that instead of paying for a trash pickup service, the tenants had been storing all their trash in the barn on th...

You don't have to be the bad guy giving out late notices, noise complaints, etc..

All an inspection can do is find bad things and lower my selling price. 

If during the screening a applicant gives any push back or questions my lease I reject them based on attitude.Once I narrows it down to the best I have a second personal interview to insure I have made the right choice before accepting them as a tenant.I reject any applicant I believe will be a bad personality fit for my property regardless of how qualified they may be.

Donate was probably a bad choice of words.

And then we can still say that we will consider bad credit (500-600) after we review the whole picture of the applicant. 

The furnaces had bad rust and all have at most another 5 years of life.

The bad?

Probably due to bad credit but possibly a (maybe overextended) investor.2.

It wasn't a bad experience, but since neither of us were ready or wanting to go down that path at that time we did not continue with it.