Candidate one appears pretty good and can move in now. Has rent and security money ready to go.

Candidate two appears excellent, but wants to move in a month. Can pay security deposit now.

Which do you choose?

Hello All, I am currently looking for a tenant to fill my first rental property. A little background; The property is located in a less-than desirable part of town, but the house is nice & clean.
I have one guy w...

Hello, We just had a potential tenant apply and she meets all of our minimum tenant standards except she has one account which appeared to be a revolving credit that a collection agency purchased and the status is "se...

I recently posted a listing for a unit in my 2-family which has had a lot of traction. An overwhelming amount of inquiries flooded through my inbox in the passed week. I tried to narrow it down to only a handful of pe...

Do other BP landlords pay attention to debt to income ratio of their prospective tenants? Say, really bad credit, but all past financial obligations paid off, and no loans, no car notes, no credit card debt, no debt, ...

So, we have our very first property ready to rent (after a 3 month rehab where we did most of the work) and just before the holidays, a passerby stopped by and stated that she would love to rent our house. My husband ...

I am new to screening for tenants and am scared of being accused of descrimination when choosing not to rent to an applicant.

Can you all give some tips on the best way to let an applicant know that you've decided no...

I got the results back from a tenant background check.  She is 28.  Credit is perfect, but she's got four criminal results.  2 are from 6 years ago (marijuana/traffic), 1 is four years ago for $1,000 of property destr...

I'm super curious if anyone else has encountered this issue...We are RE investors in Denver - we've got 3 investment properties (or 5 doors). We have >$2m in debt spread across the investment properties and our pri...

My manager is asking if I (landlord) will allow prospective tenants with no eviction in past 4 years. I was thinking no evictions at all. But what's the acceptable and more common practice here? From a simple online s...