A good tenant is worth their weight in gold, and perhaps more importantly, a bad tenant can often cost you the same. It’s both headache inducing and expensive to spend time chasing rent, cleaning up ...

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 ...

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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 ...