Tenant Screening for Landlords

Name: Tenant Screening for Landlords
Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)

A course for landlords to learn how to screen tenants

Created byRay O'Daniel

Last updated 12/2022

English

What you'll learn

How to establish your rental requirements for potential renters
How to evaluate a rental application
How to review the application screening results
How to choose the best application for your rental

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 1h 37m total length

Lesson 110:47
Learn how to screen tenants effectively, compare do-it-yourself and third-party options, and use the veteran landlord resources to build consistent policies and procedures that support fair housing.
Lesson 27:44
Understand Fair Housing Act requirements under HUD, and protect yourself by treating every applicant the same, avoiding discrimination based on protected classes in marketing and tenant screening.
Lesson 337:17
Learn to build a comprehensive tenant screening framework covering income, credit history, criminal history, rental history, employment, pets, renters insurance, automatic denials, and security deposits to select reliable renters.
Lesson 413:28
Charge nonrefundable rental application fees, collect documents, and require consent for background checks; verify emergency contacts, references, and that all adults (18+) are screened.
Lesson 513:09
Explore how to verify rental history and landlord information during tenant screening, using authorization forms, cross-checking current and previous landlords, verifying ownership, and spotting red flags.
Lesson 612:15
Verify tenants' employment by reviewing readable pay stubs, contacting the employer or HR, and using the work number service to confirm income and status.
Lesson 72:48
Learn how to read and interpret tenant screening reports, including rental verification, rental summary, payment credit checks, and criminal history, guided by color-coded reports in the handbook.

Requirements

Must own or manage rental properties and active screen potential renters

Description

In this course, my goal is for you as a potential landlord or existing landlord to be able to effectively understand how to screen a potential tenant, what to ask on your applications, how to set your rental requirements, and ultimately how to either accept or reject a tenant based upon the application collected as well as the screening results of the application.

My name is Ray O'Daniel and I have over 17 years of experience managing rental properties I have made about every mistake a landlord can make in the rental property business. As a result of this, I'm in a key position to be able to help new people who are buying a rental property, not make the same mistakes I've made in the past. Bad tenants have cost me ten of thousands of dollars in lost rent and repairs to my properties.

That is the reason I've taken the time to create this course to hopefully give people an education on how to effectively construct a good application screening because choosing the right tenant for your property can mean the difference between success and failure to a landlord.

Please take the time to review all the modules of this course. And I hope it will serve you well.

Who this course is for:

Landlords that want to screen their own rental applications and make the best choices towards find a renter.