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Neil Arnold Cozy background/credit checks
28 June 2019 | 1 reply

For those of you that you Cozy, do you require the applicant to purchase a background or credit report or both? If requiring, has it decreased the number of applicants?

Steve Rozenberg How Important is an Applicant's Credit Score, REALLY?
21 April 2016 | 17 replies

How Important is an Applicants Credit Score in Applying for One of Your Properties?

Derek Markowicz Felony on background check.
27 July 2018 | 4 replies

Simple question I already know the answer but looking for a little bit of support and wording how to approach this situation. Preliminary questions to prospective tenants I asked if they had any felonies, which they a...

Lynnette E. How do you know if a pay stub is real or fake?
4 July 2020 | 9 replies

I am reviewing applicants for a property and am wondering how to tell if a pay stub is real or not.  The applicants are claiming that they are transferring from IL to TN and the company is not real friendly with verif...

Nikolas Engel Tenant rejects personal guarantee for option, but accepts for initial lease term.
7 June 2024 | 11 replies

Folks,I am negotiating an owner-operated restaurant lease and tenant agrees to a personal guarantee for the initial lease term of five years but rejects a guarantee for the two options (five year each). We had not tal...

Jennifer D. Section 8 - tenant screening
12 November 2017 | 7 replies

Hi,
I’m new to all of this, just started listening to podcasts/YouTube this month. I understand there’s a type of bias clause when searching for tenants, such as you’re not allowed to reject one tenant over the other ...

Jessica Schonter Questioning Tenant Provided info
18 February 2019 | 7 replies

Ok so we have been using Zillow as our start of the application along with screening and background checks. A possible Tenant reached out to apply and listed past landlords after following up with her info both number...

Jay Scott Eviction - you cant make this stuff up
22 February 2019 | 17 replies

You cant make this stuff up…In July, an applicant contacted me about renting an upscale home I own in NY. 720 credit and no evictions, he paid the realtor with a check and made the deposit and first months rent throu...

Alyssa Paros What credit score do you use as a qualification?
15 January 2018 | 5 replies

We own in a triplex where the rent is $500-600/mo. Should we stick the standard in The Book on Managing Rental Properties? What credit score do you use as the qualification threshold?

Matthew Mclean Do I accept a Housing Voucher?
11 December 2024 | 29 replies

I am trying to find a tenant and one came to me with a housing voucher. She is trying to sign for a year where she pays 1/3rd of the rent and (the gov?) pays the other 2/3rds? Risks and rewards to this type of tenant?