Rental Screening Criteria

[Julie Marquez]

In Washington State, you must present each potential applicant with your rental screening criteria (aka acceptance policy). I am fine tuning my form for our C/B class apartments and am wondering what is best: a page of general things, or a super specific criteria? Our applicant pool is not coming up the greatest and I'd like to prevent so much turnover in the future. While our apartments are not designed to attract the cream of the crop, do I create a criteria that demands better, or just be a little more loose and general? To all the PMs, how specific do you get?

Super specific:

https://www.rentalswpm.com/requirements/

Kind of more general:

https://madeson.appfolio.com/listings/rental_appli...

@marcia maynard shared a good one:

https://www.biggerpockets.com/files/user/Marcia/fi...

[Nathan Gesner]

What you consider "super specific" looks best to me and is similar to what I provide on my web site. Providing your screening criteria keeps you out of hot water with discrimination complaints (assuming you abide by it) and weeds out a lot of riff-raff.