Screen better !

It doesn't mean you need to be rude - just keep a professional tone and remember you have many more records in your pipeline. my advice to you is to put a sticky note on your computer screen that says "PROFESSIONAL TONE" or something of that sort to have in front of you, so it's visual during the entire conversation.4.

If your screening standards are high, then your property needs to be good quality.

Inherited tenants should only be put onto a month to month lease, because you did not screen them and have no way of knowing if they will be good or bad tenants.

Evictions don't help us as landlords because we're forced to turnover units at a cost...when considering deferring the marginal non-payment of a tenant...you're saying you would rather come out of pocket $5,000 to turn over a unit than let $50/month go on non-paid rent...that's just silly...and its not principal its math.If you have dealt with a 1,000 section 8 folks and your knee jerk is to evict you should tighten up your screening process. 

Hi Kedric - If you're planning to manage the property on your own I'd recommend being selective during the screening process. 

don't jump on a tenant occupied investment property, even if it cuts down the vacancy loss. your screening process is likely to be different from the last owner, which will guarantee a difference in style of management and will ultimately cause friction and then eviction.

That screens out 80% of the Section 8 tenants in my area... but I'm working with B+ type homes.  

Go to the upper-right corner of your screen and type in "bad property manager" and you'll get 2,000+ hits full of information.

I would have screened my first tenant better.