My daughter, voted one of the top 100 Interior Designers in the World for her second year in a row,  has had the privilege of working with professional athletes Nationwide since starting her career almost 15 years ago.I can tell you that you are one very wise man at this station in life to be thinking the way you are.

." :-)There was no previous tenant, so that wasn't an option, but the tenant's teenage daughter did show the box to the plumber - "See?

For example, landlords  focusing on Section 8, low income or students (without much credit history)  may lean off the credit (which is likely to be lower/nonexistant and use the cosigner and focus on government portion of check) but focus more on another ingredient, like criminal background and rental history. 

Apparently they had a break in at their house and tools stolen.Then the detective, with my daughters home, asks if he can look in my garage without a search warrant.

Her son turned 18 and decided to move out, and so now it's just her and her 2 daughters, and they didn't need all the space of the 4 bedroom place they had been renting (at $1100/month). 

That is the type of project to take on, out of love, once you are a wealthy and philanthropic real estate investor and want to enjoy bringing a piece of history back to life.

I went in to the bank to see if I get pre approved, my score is 710, but they said I need at least one installment loan on my credit history, they recommended me buying a car.

My daughter in Scottsdale AZ had a simile problem.

:@Geoffrey HoffmanGeoffrey,I would check the title report that would be by far the most accurate way of determining the history of sales or transfers. 

(I've seen several posts on Bigger Pockets where people posted generic and unhelpful information on marketplaces and sponsors like: "feel comfortable with the sponsor by seeing their history and reading their site information".