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Originally Posted by Aces4
I’m not convinced, tell me how that’s working for you when you get caught with bad tenants. It happens to everyone unless you’re screening out families, minorities, low income, service pets and so forth.
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First of all I rent long term unfurnished, no pets, no smoking. I don't have problems with bad tenants as I do screen them, I allow 2 adults no families, the best tenant I ever had was a minority couple so no problem there, if the applicant does not have sufficient income to comfortably afford to pay the rent it's a no go, bankruptcy in the past, it's a no go, no proof of income, another no go, multiple references are a must, and finally I look at their car while they are looking around the unit I have for rent, a sloppy, dirty car means a sloppy, dirty home. When I was renting out homes up north I would get the applicants address on the rental application and if I was considering them I would actually go to their current home, make sure they lived there, and ask if I could come in a talk about the application. Some homes were perfect others were pig pens. There is one more thing I do that puts the icing on the cake but I'm not going to make that public.