Question About Qualifying a Tenant

Question About Qualifying a Tenant

Houston, TX · Member since 2017 · 34 posts · 19 votes

Hey BP!


So, I have a question about qualifying a tenant. I haven't called references and past landlords yet, but everything else checks out except for I'm a little confused about what to make of the credit report. 


I'm not sure if I can post parts of their credit report, so I'll try to explain what I'm seeing.

 They have make 3x the rental income and have a 660 credit score (my minimum is 600). They only have about $183 of monthly payments. a total debt of 12k, with 9k of that being student loans. This wouldnt bother me, but it's the way they're labeled that raises red flags and is causing confusion. There are about 6 different instances of "US Dept of ED/Gsl/Atl"  and all of them are showing as "closed" but all of them are also labeled as "account seriously past due date/assigned to attorney, collections, or credit grantors." There are two of those that have a current balance and payment status as "seriously past due" the rest show a "paid/ zero balance". i havent asked her about this because I'm still trying to make sense of what it means. It looks like she's still "seriously past due" on these, but what's throwing me off is why is it showing "closed" if she still has a balance on it? I've tried googling this but couldnt find much on it.


Anyways, the prospective tenant is in the army and has mentioned that rent wouldnt be an issue since they receive a housing allowance, so seeing this student load debt being past due doesnt scare me off too much but just wanted to ask yalls opinion on this. Oh, and the open date of the student loans showing a balance on them is from 2016 just btw.

Thanks BP!

Alex

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  • Real Estate Broker · Coppell, TX · Member since 2011 · 5k+ posts · 4k+ votes
    6y

    Doesn't scare me.  They didn't pay their student loans from what I see.

    Maybe bigger issue is how long they will be in their current assignment.  Potentially could get deployed or moved at any time and then you start over.

  • Houston, TX · Member since 2017 · 34 posts · 19 votes
    6y

    @Bruce Lynn thanks for the input!

    Yea that’s something that’s also crossed my mind. In my questionnaire they put they’d sign a 36 month lease, but I don’t put too much weight on that knowing they could get orders to relocate and that would be that. I looked up what the average time was for army families to move around and google says its 2-3 years. Still though, like you said, they could get an assignment and I would start over.

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