I always did the background check as well – it will turn up legal issues like evictions
I had a ‘nice’ couple apply for one of my units – they were very upfront about their finances and the fact that their credit wasn’t pristine – I told them my main criteria in that regards was no evictions
I asked them point-blank, “Have you ever been evicted?”
“Oh, no, we’ve never been evicted”
Background check showed they had been evicted three times – when I called them to turn them down they wanted to waste my time explaining the evictions
