As our business has grown, I find I need help with all the tasks surrounding leasing a unit including the leases, rental applications, marketing, tenant screening, online payments, prospective tenant lead tracking, etc.

I know it's standard screening to protect myself, but I also know a lot of good people have had hard times and are trying to come back from them.I had to evict a tenant about 10 years ago and it was a huge hassle. 

Part of it has to do with mindset and part of it has to do with poor tenant screening and part of it has to do with the way Section 8 is administered in a particular area.

He would not have passed our screening requirements.

No problems.If this applicant passes your screening, I would go for it.

Unfortunately, because I no longer occupied it, the rate/payment was only reduced slightly less that the current payment, but also reset the amortization clock back to 30 years, so I opted to keep my payment the same, and keep it as a rental, even though I was losing just a touch of money per month.So far it's been great, as I screened hard and got a great tenant who has been there since we moved out, and every month that goes by, I know I got into a much better opportunity, gained equity in the purchase of my new house which was a great deal, and the mortgage gets paid down.

@Sam Leon you can find who the previous landlord is on some tenant screening program.

Before I could answer the screen said mark was off line but he would be right back.

I can't count the times in the past 10 years that I've gotten a late payment excuse from someone wearing obviously brand new designer clothes, sporting a brand new smart phone or otherwise displaying some kind of behavior that was incongruous to their situation (new car, new tv, new bbq pit, daughter runs in and says she can't wait until they leave this weekend to go to six flags, "lost my job" but they're leaving the house freshly showered wearing their uniform....)At the end of the day, you have to do what you can live with, but if you're asking for advice, my guess is you're looking for support for what you already know you have to do.

This is where the capabilities of downloading, listening without having to enter your PIN, reading once the message is transcribed, sharing if the message was for an associate in the office and not you, and better call screening are made possible.Those of you with iPhones have been exposed to this function already.