Let's face it, Florida is
over-populated with board-certified, repeat-offender tenants
from hell who specialize in bilking ignorant, unsuspecting
Florida residential landlords out of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in unpaid rent and property damage annually. Here are
six steps that you must follow when selecting tenants to avoid
being victimized by Florida's numerous tenants from hell:
Step #1: Establish tenant qualification standards based on
legitimate business reasons. Step #2: Provide all tenant applicants with a copy of
your tenant qualification standards. Step #3: Apply your tenant qualification standards
uniformly to all tenant applicants.
Step #4: Require consumer credit and criminal background
reports on all tenant applicants.
Step #5: Check, verify and evaluate the rental history and
income of all tenant applicants.
Step #6: Deny rent to all tenant applicants who don't meet
your tenant qualification standards.
Screen Tenant Applicants
In Compliance With All Statutes
In chapter eleven of
The Florida Landlord's Manual,
there are complete instructions on how to properly screen tenant
applicants so that you don't end up renting to the proverbial
tenant from hell! You learn how to check, verify and evaluate a
tenant applicants:
1. Credit
history. 2. Criminal history. 3. Rental history. 4. Income.
