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6 Top Landlord Mistakes when screening tenants with with Team Thayer Key Realty Group Inc.

Bad tenants are bad news! Renting to a person who refuses to pay their rent can cost a landlord thousands of dollars. A destructive tenant may end up damaging your property and racking up huge repair bills. Other nightmare renters can fight eviction, and the worst case is a renter who harms other tenants or even you! A landlord’s lackadaisical approach to tenant selection can end up biting him in the end. Here are 6 common mistakes that cause good landlords to end up with bad tenants: #1: Failing to run proper  tenant screening  checks.  This error can cause you to miss big red flags that would steer you away from certain rental applicants. A tenant criminal background check can show you the applicant’s potential for being dangerous or destructive. A tenant screening credit check could alert you to a person’s problems with huge debt, or overall financial instability. Eviction records can return evidence of a person’s past evictions. All of this information is impo...