Tenant Screening Problems and Suggestions
Some readers have asked some important questions regarding the effectiveness of background checks in the tenant screening process. One major issue to trying to figure out an accurate, current portrait of your tenant’s fiduciary and social responsibility. What happens if you run a credit report that shows low risk, good credit? They might have great [...]
The Importance of Screening Residential Tenants
The examiner.com posted a recent article about the importance of background screening residential tenants. The article talks about the importance of running tenant credit reports, conducting reference verifications, and screening for criminal history. The author C arlos Cooper applies some common sense advice about evaluating the results of the background check report. For example, credit [...]
Sioux Falls offers course in Tenant Screening
More communities and beginning to educate homeowners on property management. According to the examiner.com, Sioux Falls Community education is offering several courses for home owners on various home improvement subjects. The courses begin in September and cover various aspects of home owning including first time home buying, windows, woodworking, radiant heat panels, and property management [...]
Management Company sues tenant for Twitter Post
According to CBS, a resident in Chicago has been sued by her management agency for posting a Tweet on Twitter accusing her management company of being OK with moldy apartments. The suit alleges that the twitter post is a defamatory statement. Search of the subject’s name on Twitter shows the dialogue is just starting about [...]
More communities discuss tenant screening
Communities across the United States are starting to discuss the benefits of tenant screening, including how to conduct a tenant screening and how to follow the applicable state, local and federal laws. Recently, Brainerd MN held a town hall meeting about tenant screening and this week they are getting to together to discuss it. The [...]
The Importance of Tenant Screening
More communities are providing forums to help landlords and property owners understand their rights and help them engage effectively with their tenants. Champlin Minnesota is the newest community to encourage this behavior, which a forum that occurred on May 14th, the second annual landlord forum. In addition to discussing low interest loans for property repair, [...]
Take care of your tenants before it makes the news
WLKY.com reports a full story about tenants finding rats in their apartment, complete with photographs of rats and rats droppings. The tenants claim the problem started in January and they have been trying to resolve it with their landlords, but the problem is still ongoing. They claim the property manager didn’t take them seriously and [...]
Sign up for Tenant Training Camp
Jefferson Community College is offering Tenant Training workshops for everyone involved in the rental industry, including tenants, landlords, property managers and building and property owners. This is an original and creative method of helping out tenant and landlords. We have always stressed the importance of understanding the rental laws of your community, as well as [...]
Check out your landlords financial strength
According to news-press.com, there’s is a growing problem for Florida condominium associations regarding non-paying unit owners who have tenants living in their unit. These unit owners are behind on their HOA fees and yet Florida law provides that the utilities cannot be disrupted to the tenant living in the unit. There is a bill before Florida [...]
More local governments encouraging tenant screening
As the recession moves from Wall Street to Main Street, local cities are forced to deal with the affects, with shrinking tax revenue. We were all hopefull during the housing boom that blighted parts of town would be regentrified, and the blight would be replaced by a white picket fence and an interest only mortage. Backsliding into chaos [...]
