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10 Unexpected Reasons Why Tenants Get Rejected
According to Chicago’s fair housing laws, a landlord cannot use a tenant’s race, color, sex, gender identity, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status or source
Read More »Five Ways to…Comply with New Tenant Screening Laws
you know that new regulations went into effect this year detailing what you must tell your tenant when you screen them? That’s right, it’s a whole new set of regulations. While a fact sheet
Read More »Why Do Apartments Conduct Criminal Background Checks?
Most apartments conduct criminal background checks, or so they state on their application. This is usually mandated by certain federal laws and state laws but also many landlords simply want to protect themselves. If
Read More »Stopping crime before it happens
Forest Park Detective Mike O'Connor has a file of tenant horror stories. The local crime-free multihousing officer remembers the new landlord in 2010 who rented her single-story house with two-car garage in the 1500
Read More »Here’s What It Takes To Do Tenant Screening
If you want to secure your rental business, conduct tenant screening. Make sure you conduct tenant screening for your security. There are legitimate ways to screen a tenant. There are important steps in doing
Read More »Landlord blames tenant for drug den
A PARKWOOD landlord has blamed a former tenant for turning a suburban rental home into a drug den complete with cannabis plants weighing 66.6kg. Uri Drozdoff, 37, yesterday told a Southport District Court jury he
Read More »Tenant stores hundreds of pounds of marijuana in Tupperware
A West Valley City woman found a new use for her Tupperware bins — a convenient drug holder, according to police. The 31-year-old woman was charged in 3rd District Court on Thursday for possession of
Read More »Tips for Tenant Screening
Screening happens to be an integral component in modern living. Be it university student and its family members screening for getting admission in the unique university, or be it candidate’s screening for obtaining a
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