Knowledge and doing your homework won’t eliminate all the risks in land investing, but it will eliminate the unnecessary ones.

Check out the education tab they have a guide on screening tenants.  

If you tell him you found out, he'll think you were digging up dirt on him and wonder why you suddenly started screening him after he's done a good job for a year.

After screening through e-mail I had 6 showing the next day and had a signed lease, paid on wednesday afternoon and moved in friday to a great well qualified tenant.

I think the biggest lesson here is that proper screening can prevent most bad tenants.

The second property is likely rented, subject to clearing waivers (screening).

I would fly into fits of rage and yell at them, stay up all night being mad thinking about their new cars and big screen tv's.

For you investors working with RE agents to bring you pre-screened seller leads, and then retail flipping those deals using agents, are you able to use that same agent that brought you the lead as your selling agent for a short sale flip?

Is there any website which does online rental application and credit screening.

You can give them a script, that's just screening, though.