What is everyone's most important things they look for when screening tenants?

Hello Again Everyone,  I am processing a rental application right now and I would like everyone's opinion.  The background check came back clean with no criminal history.  Good start.  No evictions on record either.  ...

As RE developers we all know how important it is to hire good, reliable residential contractors. Because we are dependant, for the most part, on word of mouth recommendations it is vital that our recommendations are ...

I do my own leasing and screen tenants.

Unlike stocks, a tenant's past performance is a guarantee of future results.

(i.e. if there are red flags in their past, there will be red flags in your future if...

Here in Jacksonville we have a online record search that let's you pull the county eviction records. Unfortunately when someone has a common name I often get hundreds of records and multiple evictions with no way to t...

Hey BP Community! So I've got my first contract signed, I'll be getting with the closing attorney on Monday. My question is now what?This is what I've done so far... I created a Facebook Fanpage to market the property...

Hi Everyone!I'm looking for some advise on how to approach a particular situation please. We are trying to rent a recently vacated unit.  There is a couple that passed the initial phone screening and thus led to a pro...

Hi all,I have a 3 unit multifamily in not the best area. One of my tenants has been complaining the past couple months that my inherited tenant has frequent comings and goings of people that look like drug fiends exhi...

Maybe we're too strict.  I just want to feel out other opinions.  If you checked someone out and found out that they were arrested for theft in 2007, but they were never convicted, how would you proceed?  I've had a v...

I haven’t started investing in rental properties yet, but one of my steps towards my goal is to glean as much as possible from the seasoned pros here.

I was reading Brandon Turner’s Book On Rental Properties and in ...