About The Screening Tenant Checklist

To help avoid claims that you have violating fair housing laws you need to have a well documented system for selecting tenants and follow that system. The Screening Tenant Checklist is a great tool to help you have a written system describing exactly what you expect each tenant to provide to you when they apply to rent your property.

The checklist describes the process you would follow as a landlord when you take calls from prospective tenants and how to correctly gather information from them to be able to process their rental application.
We cover the types of identification and proof of income they should provide when you meet them at the house to complete an application.

We also stress that you should have each adult over the age of 18 that will be living in the property complete a separate application.

In this checklist we also discuss our policy for holding a rental property and what a prospective tenant must do to have us hold a property for them.

Until my next post,

James

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