Here’s a simple but effective method:Tenant Screening Checklist✔ ID Verification – Confirm the applicant is who they say they are to prevent fraud.✔ Income Verification – Use a service that pulls actual bank deposits rather than relying on pay stubs or bank statements (which can be faked).✔ Eviction & Rental History – Look for past evictions, late payments, and landlord references to spot red flags.✔ Criminal Background Check – Run a nationwide search to ensure compliance with local laws while identifying potential risks.✔ Judgments & Liens Search – Since these no longer appear on credit reports, a separate search helps uncover unpaid debts or financial issues.For Section 8 tenants, screening should be the same—rental history and income verification are key since they’re still responsible for a portion of the rent.

Also, what effect on personal credit score?  

Any advise on which platforms Facebook, instagram, or any other ones are the most effective for attracting new clients to hopefully sign contracts for rental property mgmt?

.• Allows tenants up to 9 months to purchase the building including 60 days’ notice before listing and up to 90 days after receiving an offer to decide to exercise their right of first refusal.• Building owners have to turn over detailed information about their operations and finances, and even share their rent rolls, leases, and P&L statements with tenants and the DOH.• Demolition fees of $60k and more wipes out decades of equity for distressed sellers. • You can’t vacate units without just cause and you are required to keep tenants for 6 months after closing even if they are MTM or their lease expires, eliminating owner occupied buyers.• Because of the long timeline, we can no longer execute 1031 exchanges.• The tenants have the right to sell the contract to a third party for a profit.This ordinance will drive out small, local owners, replacing them with cash-rich, out-of-town corporate owners.

Hi there,I'm trying to determine the best way to live in and eventually acquire a property as an inheritance while maximizing cost-effectiveness.

Whatever I do, I would need to do with a HELOC—effectively financing 100% of the property (down payment and closing financed with HELOC, rest of purchase financed with a mortgage). 

Well I think the question is what effect will those layoffs have on the housing market in DC.

Hi All - This is a funny request but my fiancé and I recently did an exercise together where we wrote down 10 things we are grateful for, 5 goals of ours for the next two years, and 5 goals of ours for the next five years.

That's definitely a good exercise and one we've been doing more and more lately (and thereby selling and selling more these days). 

@Adam Schneider success with a lease option doesn't always mean that the person exercises their option to buy. as I stated above, we've had a lot of people that have really appreciated that they had an option to buy the house, even though they decided to move.