Good morning, I am planning to buy a property to rent in Buckeye Shaker.I know it is a quarter with quite a lot of criminality.

Anything ridiculous gets turned in to insurance, and anything criminal - think concrete in toilets or cabinets torn off walls - goes to the police.

You should always protect yourself against professional tenants.I do a lot of screening including:- Credit Scores MUST be over 700- Income MUST be over 45 times monthly Rent- You MUST have a Landlord recommendation AND you must have 6 month Bank Statements to prove the Landlord's recommendation is not BS- You MUST have a clean Criminal Background- Tenant/Landlord Eviction Check must be cleanetc.A lot of these checks cannot be done in every Area, btw.

She might be fronting for her drug addict/criminal friend, son etc.

I started reading the IRC and realized it was not contrived by the same type of minds that write criminal laws immediately! 

Your lease says you don't allow criminal activity? 

At least you won’t have to waste any time or money doing background, criminal or credit checks on these people.

I can't verify their identity, their resident history, their ability to pay, the criminal record, or anything else.

I've had two occasions where the reference they listed told me not to rent to them because they were violent, late payers, or too needy.Not doing a criminal, credit, background check, which might have revealed criminal or credit problemsBeing slow to evict (mentioned by others)Believing their sob storiesAccepting partial paymentsFailing to document every conversation or interactionNot walking through the property to make sure they're taking care of it (I now walk through every 9 months so I can see problems in different seasons)We've found crack pipes and other paraphernalia after they moved outWe've discovered piles and piles of trash (some bagged, some not) in closets, basements, sheds when trash cans and pickup service are included in their rent - all they had to do was carry it out, at no cost to themWe've Found smokers, pets, extra peopleOverall, I've had great success as a property investor. 

I have also heard that the likelihood of a person having a criminal history correlates with the FICO score.