Screening for commercial tenants

[Kai G.]

Hiya,

I'm renting individual rooms in an office suite. The tenants are professionals in the beauty and wellness space. They each operate through their own (small) companies. I have never screened, and have recently had some bad experiences with tenants not paying and breaking leases. I'm wondering if I can screen these people as individuals and use the "data" from a background check by Zillow or others in my decision making process. I would think you can draw parallels between personal financial responsibility and that of the person's business. Of course if the background check come back with anything criminal I will use that as a disqualifier. What do you all think?