Doing background checks for prospective tenants?

Section 8 adds a standardized lease, annual inspection and a subsidy to enable the prospect to afford your rental.You and Tenant sign your lease and the S8 lease. 

Most prospective tenants that you'd want in your place have their own furniture already (or at least their own taste, which may be different from yours), so with a furnished place, you're generally shrinking your pool of applicants a bit.

I’ve heard people say not to put hardwood floors in a rental because they take a lot of damage but it would have probably cost more to put in a new flooring.

Over one week, there were 78 inquiries through Zillow, 2 through Craigslist and 53 through FB Marketplace.We held an open house (5 families showed up) and then decided to pre-screen using a Google Form and schedule viewings for reasonable prospects (with sufficient income and no pets).

This is from the actual rules under personal disclosure PERSONAL INTEREST.No broker or affiliate broker shall, either directly or indirectly through a third party, purchase for himself or attempt to purchase or acquire any interest in or option to purchase property listed with him or with his company, or property regarding which he or his company has been approached by the owner to act as broker, without first making a full disclosure of his true position to the owner of the property or to any prospective purchaser for which he has acted for as a client or customer.

Read the fine print in the foundation repair contract: Damages to the property, interior and exterior as a result of the foundation movement are not covered, during and after works completion.

Steel is both usually unattractive, and may have your prospective tenants asking why they would need a steel door (esp if your property is in an A/B neighborhood.

If you've had 0 to a few prospects then it's likely the cost preventing more interest.

You must appeal to the tenant prospects in this area to succeed.