Potential Tenant Has Terrible Credit! One Landlord Horror Story

potential tenant has terrible credit

Potential Tenant Has Terrible Credit


A potential tenant has terrible credit, but you won’t know unless you actually run the credit of every person that applies to rent your home.   This person will do everything in his power to get you to rent to him without running his credit!

As a landlord, I cannot emphasis enough how important it is to run the credit of every single person that applies for one of your rentals because it will help you identify the tenant that has terrible credit.  Think of it as like playing Russian Roulette if you don’t run credit checks.

 

Many potential tenants that you talk to will have bad credit but every so often one will be the worst you have seen to date.  The key is to find a tenant with credit challenges that you can live with.

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