Ultimate Tenant Screening Guide

The goal of tenant screening is to assess a tenant’s potential risk. There are three main questions that you’re trying to answer. How likely are they to pay their rent on time each month? How well will they maintain the unit? How long are they likely to stay for?

Most landlords’ focus on making sure tenants can pay rent. The reason they do this is that the other two questions are harder quantify.  You’ll have to use your intuition and experience to gauge these risks.