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Dismembered bodies and gunned-down landlords: Reminders to screen tenants
A thorough tenant screening would have revealed red flags for Luka Rocco Magnotta - who allegedly dismembered a human body in his Quebec apartment and sent a foot to the Federal Conservatives - and
Read More »Prevent Tenants Misusing Your Property
Your success as a landlord depends not on sitting around idly while the rent money rolls in, you need to invest wisely and take proactive measures to protect your investment. Once tenants are handed
Read More »How To Handle Bad Tenants
Bad tenants are a landlord's worst nightmare. Between not paying their rent, trashing your rental property, allowing pest infestations, committing criminal acts in the property and a hundred other miserable acts, bad tenants can
Read More »Two lawsuits highlight legal snags surrounding tenant screening
Two recent lawsuits dealing with the deaths of tenants by other tenants could change the face of tenant screening. The first lawsuit was against the Charlotte (N.C.) Housing Authority over a case in which
Read More »Good Reasons for a Tenant Background Check
Why should property owners screen renters with a Tenant Background Check? A rental application can’t tell a landlord exactly what a credit check can because applicants can lie as well as the application doesn’t give
Read More »Landlord Gets Year In Prison For Tenants’ Marijuana Operation
A Montana landlord with no criminal history has been sentenced to a year in prison for a medical marijuana operation run by his tenants. Jonathan Janetski, 36, of Flathead Valley, was sentenced by U.S.
Read More »Couple discover tenants turned their home into cannabis factory
A couple have been landed with a £20,000 clean-up bill after they let their home and the tenants turned it into a cannabis factory. Shaun and Katie Thomas were left devastated after they went to
Read More »What Are My Responsibilities as a Landlord Regarding Illegal Immigrants Living in My Property?
Immigration policies in the U.S. are currently under much debate, which also applies to policies regarding renting property to illegal immigrants. Some states have made renting to illegal immigrants illegal for landlords while others
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