| You've worked hard to provide a home for your | | | | often enough to catch a tenant with recent |
| family. Now you've decided to enter the rental | | | | evictions. Using a tenant screening service to |
| home market and provide shelter for a family | | | | uncover landlord/tenant court filings, possession |
| that's not yet ready to buy. It's an opportunity | | | | judgments, and monetary judgments is the best |
| for a tenant to find a home at a price that he can | | | | way to protect yourself, your time, and your |
| afford, and for a landlord to pay for his sizable | | | | valuable investment from a predatory tenant. |
| investment. Everybody wins, right? | | | | Landlords that have been through the eviction |
| Unfortunately things are rarely so simple. Two | | | | process will attest that having this information |
| unfamiliar people entering into a contract involving | | | | before entering into a rental agreement gives you |
| something as expensive as a home can often go | | | | the information you need to make better |
| awry. Too many times we hear stories of | | | | decisions. |
| property destruction or lack of payment and the | | | | Renting your valuable property to a complete |
| drama that ensues. In many states it seems that | | | | stranger is an unsettling proposition. The small |
| the renter now has more rights than the | | | | amount of money spent on a tenant screening |
| property owner, making it a real challenge to evict | | | | service can save you big dollars down the road. |
| a delinquent or destructive tenant in a reasonable | | | | The time and money that is sacrificed through |
| period of time. | | | | the eviction process can be substantial and, |
| Smart landlords are now doing their homework | | | | unfortunately, evictions occur far too often in |
| before entering into an agreement with a potential | | | | today's rental market. Use a tenant screening |
| tenant. But relying solely on public tenant eviction | | | | service and give yourself the best opportunity for |
| records rarely gives you the whole picture. | | | | success in your rental process. |
| Typically these public records are not updated | | | | |