As a small landlord, a single bad tenant can devastate your business. Unlike large management companies with diversified portfolios and legal departments, you don’t have the financial cushion to ...

Always collect and review rental applications, looking for red flags in housing history, job stability, and occupancy plans. Run thorough tenant screening reports, including credit checks, criminal ...

As a landlord, you should only want the best candidates to become your tenants. Great applicants become great tenants who pay rent on time, renew their leases, and become reliable members of your ...

When I talk to new and seasoned landlords alike, one of the topics we invariably land on is the importance of tenant screening. In fact, in full disclosure, I now operate a company that provides free ...

The rental market has never felt quite this difficult to navigate. You fill out application after application, pay those ...

Landlords and tenants often accept the tenant screening process as a formality. But there’s a hidden set of processes that work behind the scenes to create the neatly formatted PDFs landlords rely on ...