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Checking a Prospective Tenant’s Credit Report
It is common practice to check prospective tenants' credit reports before approving them for your rental property. This can greatly reduce your risks of accepting troublesome tenants, and can alert you to potential problems
Read More »Do Property Managers Discriminate Against Applicants?
This, according to a Fair Housing presentation last month in Tacoma, Washington, during which the most prevalent point made, was that a higher percentage of minorities have prior evictions and therefore, referencing eviction records
Read More »It’s landlords who need protection from tenants
In view of many years as an accountant managing rented offices and residential properties in a property investment company and also from my own experiences dealing with tenants, I must respond to the letter
Read More »A guide to tenant screening and what you need to know
The need for a place to stay is basic. Not everyone can afford to buy a property, however, so people use renting as a long or short term alternative. As part of the rental
Read More »How to Screen a Prospective Tenant for Your Rental Property
For a landlord who has plans of selling their home in the future it is important that you preserve not only the value of your property but its good condition. And this can only
Read More »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
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