I am managing a new property with a few Low Income units.  My questions are1.  What is the best way to screen low income tenants?2.  Do these tenants have to go through the county/city first?Thanks in advance!

Since I became a landlord several years ago, I have always use the same screening process. When I show a property, I have prospective tenants show up dispersed every 10 minutes on a given evening. The typical evening ...

Like a lot of people, I heard on a BP podcast that looking into completed evictions is a good way to find landlords in your area who may be motivated to sell their headache properties. So I hopped on the interwebs, fo...

Hello, my Minneapolis property will be on the market again soon and this will be my first experience with the new Minneapolis Rental Screening ordinance that went into effect a couple years ago. Most of my google/big...

Hello, new to this website, I had a question, how often do you guys rent to criminals? Do you have a policy for that, such as type of crime will deny the application?I want to give people changes because I can underst...

How do you all screen illegals for a rental property?  They have an ITIN but no social.  Can I ask the police to check for something?

I am really only writing this because more and more frequently I have seen this come up. And it practically grinds a nail in my nerves to reward tenants for bad behavior by offering them cash to leave. It undermines l...

Hi BP, I'm currently screening tenants for a 3BR apt that I have in Springfield, Mass. I have a really great applicant that I'm considering but theyre currently going through a No- Fault eviction with their current la...

Has anyone used Smartmove tenant screening?  If so what do you think?  Anyone use other methods?  I need to improve my selection process and need some advice/info.

Hello BP members!  As most of you know there are a lot of websites for conducting background checks on people.  My question is what are the best websites to use?