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Tenant Screening Lessons From The Trenches

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Commercial Real Estate Agent with American Apartment Owners Association

Child with cellDo You Have the Techno-Savvy to Screen Younger Tenants?

Veteran property manager Wallace Gibson, CPM of Gibson Management Group, Ltd., in Virginia responded to our article Is Your Lease Application Falling Short? with his own list of great tips, gleaned from forty years in the property management business.  Here's some of his sage advice:

Tenant Credit Checks

Running a credit check with a FAKE SS# with the information on an application actually CREATES a "credit identity" for that person - so that the NEXT time the information is requested it is actually THERE with ‘no credit' reported....this should be a danger sign for would-be landlords...

Tenant Screening Checklist

When screening a tenant, I always: Read more Lessons From The Trenches