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submitted: Aug 10th 2008 | by: SimonMSkinner | Total views: 3 | Word Count: 368 | |

I inherited an apartment building from a family member and found myself in a new position as a landlord. It is a great career, keeps me busy and makes me a very good income. However there are some pitfalls and I had to learn them the hard way, on the way!

You simply cannot trust everyone no matter how trustworthy they seem to be. Being a landlord, I not only had to protect my property, but also myself and my family and other renters.

A good way to protect people and property is to run a tenant background check before you rent to them. There are many types of screenings or background checks that you can run before you rent to somebody.

Personally I run a background check, a social security check and a tenant screening. I use MacDataAdvantage.com, it is a great website that provides me with all of the screening tools that I need.

A tenant background check is an important process before a rental agreement is signed. Personally I would not want a sex offender living in an apartment next to a family with young children. I also wouldnt want someone who had a history of destroying property.

A social security background check is very useful to check that you are renting to a person who is in the country legally. You could get yourself into all sorts of trouble if you are renting to someone who is not in the country legally.

Here is an example of running a simple background check or tenant screening that helped me avoid what could turned into a bad situation. I had a young couple who had applied to rent one of the apartments in my building. They looked nice and neat and their application looked great and I was sure that they were going to make great long term tenants.

As I normally do, I ran a tenant background check and all of a sudden my 'perfect couple' didnt look quite so wonderful. This couple had a history of leaving properties in a really bad way and for non payment of rent. Once again by running a background check through MacDataAdvantage.com I saved myelf a lot of potential headaches!

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