Tenant Screening

A Vancouver landlord recently detailed in the news how he found his rental unit after his disgruntled tenant moved out: cement in the drains, toilet, and appliances, holes in the walls, the dryer door glued shut, and the key glued into the lock. Only three weeks into...

There's a lot riding on a rental application. Getting it right means staving off tenant fraud and quickly eliminating applicants who are not qualified. To accomplish that, the application needs to contain all the requisite parts, without muddying the waters with...

Make tenant screening as stress-free and effective as possible by avoiding these easy-to-fix mistakes: 1. Demanding cash rather than check for rent deposits or application fees. Some landlords prefer cash for application fees or rent and security deposits. The theory...

A landlord in Ontario is reeling after he evicted his tenant for failing to pay rent and then found two abandoned dogs and heaps of trash inside the apartment. According to a news report, the landlord estimates he is out $20,000 in lost rent and property damage. The...

A rental applicant who offers to pay in cash may seem like the dream tenant. No worries over bounced cheques. In reality, cash payments are a red flag. Rather than streamlining the leasing process, a landlord needs to use extra vigilance when screening these...

Is your rental applicant telling the truth about employment and income? It's a question every landlord needs to ask. And with tenant fraud on the rise, it's information that must be independently verified. Private landlords aren't the only ones who struggle with...

Landlords in Connecticut are picking up the pieces after their tenant added extra bedrooms to their single-family rental home, sublet the property on Airbnb, and then stopped paying rent. Neighbors say those nightly visitors included a 40-person party. According to a...

At a recent city council meeting in Portland, Oregon proponents of rental regulations that bar landlords from rejecting tenants for bad credit or violent criminal history scolded those landlords who objected, accusing them of disseminating misleading information and...

The Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Ontario Human Rights Commission are expressing concern that rental ads placed on Facebook Canada potentially are discriminatory. The concern was triggered by a lawsuit filed in the U.S. against Facebook alleging that its...

This might come as a surprise to some landlords, but a majority of tenants actually want to report rent payments to a credit reporting agency. A recent survey conducted by TransUnion credit bureau shows that a whopping 73% of tenants say that reporting monthly rent...