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Ashley:
Yeah, I actually just put out a guide too with rent Ready. It’s talking all about tenant screening and it’s actually a pretty long thing. It’s not just a one pager of how to do a tenant screening. It goes pretty in depth. You can find that at biggerpockets.com/resources and it’s the tenant screening guide. But basically you should have some kind of software that is actually going to run a background check for you, credit check for you do an income verification, or you should manually be calling to verify that they actually work where they say they’re employed. There’s a situation recently from a friend of mine that works for a property management company and they just rented to somebody and they went off of their credit screening reports just saying approved or denied and didn’t actually dig into what was on the reports. And now the dog board in is calling my friend who works at the company saying this person has been evicted to other places, which in New York you can’t deny someone based on eviction, but they have all of these felony records and stuff that didn’t show up.
And so he did a simple Google search of this person. So there’s three or four articles that come up to three or four different circumstances where this person was arrested for a gun charge, illegal possession of a weapon for gang violence, all these things that didn’t show up in the screening report. So it is very, yes, you should be using these reports 100%, but there are other things to do. Look at the person’s Facebook too. So violent things like gun possession, gang violence, those are things that you could turn someone away from because this wasn’t in a complex where there’s a ton of other people living and for the safety of others, you could deny that person. So I really like looking at the person’s social media, especially when it’s your house act too, and you can deny for any reason looking at their social media, can you see pictures of the room they’re renting now and is it kept clean? Is it kept nice? So yeah, I think use the standard screening procedures, but also do a little bit of your own. And most women are very good at exposing the truth about different things and doing the digging and investigating.
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