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Dismembered bodies and gunned-down landlords: Reminders to screen tenants

Dismembered bodies and gunned-down landlords: Reminders to screen tenants

tenantriskverification June 4, 2012 0

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

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Prevent Tenants Misusing Your Property

Prevent Tenants Misusing Your Property

tenantriskverification June 1, 2012 1

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

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How To Handle Bad Tenants

How To Handle Bad Tenants

tenantriskverification June 1, 2012 0

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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Two lawsuits highlight legal snags surrounding tenant screening

Two lawsuits highlight legal snags surrounding tenant screening

tenantriskverification June 1, 2012 0

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

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Good Reasons for a Tenant Background Check

Good Reasons for a Tenant Background Check

tenantriskverification May 31, 2012 0

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

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Landlord Gets Year In Prison For Tenants’ Marijuana Operation

Landlord Gets Year In Prison For Tenants’ Marijuana Operation

tenantriskverification May 31, 2012 0

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.

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Couple discover tenants turned their home into cannabis factory

Couple discover tenants turned their home into cannabis factory

tenantriskverification May 30, 2012 0

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

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What Are My Responsibilities as a Landlord Regarding Illegal Immigrants Living in My Property?

What Are My Responsibilities as a Landlord Regarding Illegal Immigrants Living in My Property?

tenantriskverification May 30, 2012 0

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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