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How to Screen Potential Tenants – Questions, Credit & Background Check
With a good tenant, you can sleep easy at night as a landlord knowing the rent will get paid and the property will stay relatively undamaged. With a bad tenant, on the other hand,
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 »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
Read More »Landlord stabbed to death by tenant
A man was stabbed to death by his Armenian tenant in the Fatih district of İstanbul on Thursday. Grigor Ishkhanyan (33) and his girlfriend, Sedu Beginyan (20), who are believed to be living in
Read More »What Landlords Need to Know About Tenant Screening
As a landlord, you don’t like having rentals available for a long period of time. The longer that they go unrented, that means you are losing money. However, don’t fall to the temptation of
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