I’ve been using Baselane’s new tenant screening tools—they let you send out applications and get back credit, criminal, and eviction history reports all in one place.

I'd much rather see criminal laws that are aggressive when it comes to fraud and deceit/sleight of hand.

Some things investors can do to be proactive and mitigate risks of investing in the city are - Have a great local team- During rehabs place curtains up, do leave trash outside as it attracts criminals and more trash- 7.)

In your experience, doing criminal background checks, credit history, employment history and eviction history helps mitigate these issues with tenants? 

You can identify it all you want but if there’s no investigators or AUSAs to take the case, nothing happens criminally.

To get a 2nd home mortgage you will have to state that you will only rent it out for no more than 14 days annually.If you enter into a 2nd home mortgage with the plan to violate this mortgage requirement, you will be committing mortgage fraud which is a federal offense.Many investors have done this and haven't been caught, but some of them are now defaulting on their mortgages, due to STR market downturns, and may be exposed to criminal charges if their fraud is identified.

And if they apply and pay the cost I run their credit and criminal. 

well as I posted last week Oregon is now going to require wholesalers to be licensed they have carved out a special license for this activity.. those wishing to continue to wholesale will need to do full criminal and get a bond.. some will not qualify as they have bad backgrounds or crappy credit.

If they do, most states allow for some form of criminal trespass charges.

On the last 2 applicants, I noticed there was no criminal background check, only a search for "Filtered National Civil Court Records Search."