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Updated over 10 years ago on . Most recent reply

Do you re-screen tenants before renewing a lease?
I recently had a tenant vacate a townhouse and during a walk through prior to their leaving a noticed court documents from a neighboring county informing my tenant that his charges for "aggravated sexual battery" were being dropped. Obviously I don't know the circumstances or what happened but had the tenant not decided to leave I would have gladly renewed his lease. There were no payment issues and the home was always kept in great shape. Since this happened I have been considering re-screening my tenants between leases. I was wondering if anyone else did this or if they had other advice on how to monitor tenants post screening.
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I've never considered doing this with a good paying tenant. If i saw behavior that might indicate issues such as sporadic communication, late payments, messages from neighbots/relations to tenant then I would certainly entertain this idea.