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6 Suggestions on How to Avoid Being Dominated by Your Tenants

by Peter Giardini | July 23, 2011

If I’ve said it once, I’ave said it a million times… the key to being a successful (read profitable) landlord is to select quality tenants and train them to be even better tenants. If you mess up in either department your life is going to be miserable and your profits are going to suffer. Guaranteed! [...]

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8 Tips For Screening Out Professional Tenants: Your Worst Nightmare!

by Peter Giardini | June 2, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article here on the BiggerPockets Blog entitled Landlords… How To Proceed When The Rent is Late! While the article had some good insight regarding actions you should be taking to protect both your rent and property when the rent is late, one of the comments to that [...]

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The Ultimate Guide to Screening Tenants

by Peter Giardini | March 31, 2011

I am sure you have heard this saying regarding real estate deals… “some of my best deals, were the ones I didn’t do”? The same can be said for tenants as well. “Some of your best tenants are the ones you didn’t accept.” The problem with selecting tenants is that your selection process can’t be [...]

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Mobile Home Tenant Screening Guide

by John Fedro | September 4, 2010

Ultimately whoever occupies your investment home is your decision. The choice of who will move-in, maintain and occupy your investment property should be carefully screened and cherry picked until you have the “perfect” tenant or tenant-buyer. Let’s get real, “In many areas of the country some landlords are fighting over the scarcity of renters in [...]

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Managing Tenants Part Three: Written Criteria for Tenant Selection

by Connie Brzowski | February 9, 2008

Success as a [tag]landlord[/tag] depends on screening tenants-weeding out the Naughty and renting to the Nice. Awareness of (and compliance with the Fair Housing Act is not only necessary, but essential to success for any [tag]rental[/tag] business. Adopting a set of written criteria for tenant selection is one of the best (and easiest) ways to [...]

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