When I talk to new and seasoned landlords alike, one of the topics we invariably land on is the importance of tenant screening. In fact, in full disclosure, I now operate a company that provides free ...

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A few days before Thanksgiving 2019, Joyce Williams lost her job as a security guard in Chicago, and in the few months it took her to find work again, she fell behind on rent. Her apartment, located ...

Landlords and tenants often accept the tenant screening process as a formality. But there’s a hidden set of processes that work behind the scenes to create the neatly formatted PDFs landlords rely on ...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. When you're looking for tenants, you want ...

Ryan Barone is cofounder and CEO of RentRedi, a property management software that simplifies the renting process for landlords and renters. There are several common missteps that can prove costly for ...

“Under the current opaque system, there is no way to know if a former convict or someone with bad credit is moving into my home.” On the 12th, a petition titled “Introduction of Tenant Interview ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Your most important decision that will determine the success or failure of your rental is the person you put in the property. A bad ...