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Tenant Screening is Changing-What Landlords Need to Know
The economy is struggling and anyone in business is doing their best to get customers to patronize them. This also holds true for landlords. Many people are finding it hard to rent apartments because
Read More »Angry Evicted Tenant Takes Oven and Refrigerator to Even the Score
Here are a few of the crimes that have occurred in the City of Hazelwood throughout the past few weeks. Hazelwood Patch attained the accounts from the Hazelwood Police Department.
Read More »Landlord Owes Money to Rule-Breaking Tenant
In a recent case from British Columbia, a tenant who was subject to two eviction attempts for failing to pay rent was nonetheless able to obtain a $700 award against her landlord for withholding
Read More »Website Reveals Ugly Truth of Problem Tenants
Every experienced landlord has a horror story or two about terrible tenants. But a website based in Florida has visual proof: pictures of tenants and the destruction they leave behind
Read More »How to Verify a Renter’s Source of Income
Who cares where a renter’s money comes from? All that matters is that you get paid, right? This is a common mentality that property managers and landlords take when they’re searching for new residents. However,
Read More »How to Run a Credit Check on a Potential Tenant – For Landlords
As a landlord, your primary responsibility is to find stellar tenants to occupy the property – tenants who pay the rent and take care of their rented home as if it were their own.
Read More »Should landlords be penalized for tenants’ crimes?
Cedar Rapids officials are making a new push to identify nuisance rental properties — including those at or near where crimes take place — and to put in place a mechanism that can assess
Read More »Every Landlord needs to be Knowledgeable of Eviction Processes
Are there reasons why a landlord should evict a tenant from the property? Very often, a landlord makes an error and unfortunately leases a property to a criminal who will not only vandalize the
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