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To be completely honest, no amount of credit and background check can prove if a person will not damage your property in the end. Good credit doesn’t mean I care about your property nor does having good financial stability. I worked as a property manager for many years. Also a person can have a job today and be jobless tomorrow. Being a landlord carries many risk and these items are just a few of them.
I let them pick the last two. 1 was shitty but couldn’t predict it because the shitty/messy gf wasn’t on the application and the second worked out well.
Maybe it’s time to find a new property manager.
Best thing I did to reduce my worries with a tenant I was nervous about was have my prop manager do quarterly inspections - it cost me like $75-125 a quarter but basically could flag damage before the tenant ever left
I’m not looking to discriminate—just to ensure the tenants have financial stability.
How do you handle this? Do you trust the property manager’s process, or do you insist on personally reviewing tenants before they sign a lease? Would love to hear how others navigate this!
Seems like setting new requirements would help with this and avoid the risks your manager identified. Maybe you’d be able to identify some consistent red flags based on the cases you mentioned.