How to identify a bad tenant?

When you have a condo, townhouse, and a house to lease, you becomes a landlord. When someone applies for a rent on your property, you have to guess out the applicant on on these two main questions: (1) Is the applicant able to pay the rent on time? (2) Could the applicant take care of your properties? Checking the applicant’s credit report from a credit bureau is one of the main methods. Interview is a second method. Contacting his/her former landlords on references is a third method. Here we introduce a fourth assisting method – searching the Tenancy Bureau database. This database holds all the reported tenants, who did not pay the over-due rents.

Tenancy Bureau is a world-wide organization. Its “bad tenant” database covers these countries: Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, UK, South Africa, and Ireland.

Tenancy Bureau offers following free services and tools:

As an example, let’s search if ‘John Smith’ has any over-due rent, not paid:

Here is the search results:

I hope this article can partly answer you on this kind of questions:

--- How to find out if an applicant has not completely paid his/her rents in the past?

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