we have some really bad rents right now. advise?

[Gary Allan]

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Is a landlord allowed to ask for employment verification from their tenant, such as a W2 form?

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I haven't had to do this for a while, but I run a full credit check, I take a copy of their last pay stub and a utility bill from their current or last residence. If they start getting nervous ...and can't answer all the questions without a bunch of excuses ...they don't get the rental. You can tell someone who has "canned" answers ..these are the ones who have been to the scam rodeo before. If someone is earnest and acknoweleges some mishap and otherwise looks like a respectible person ..they get put in the "okay" pile.


We did a decent rehab on our detached unit. One family came to look at it. As the husband and wife were talking to us ..the children were smashing toys against the baseboards ...the parents didn't even flinch. They didn't have a clue that this was not something I wanted to see.

Divorced women w/ or w/o children. When they come in ...they have no need for men ..and none on the horizon. Sooner or later a male would "sorta" move in ..or they would want to cut their lease and move out. One lady bugged the crap outta me to install a washer hookup in the unit ...I did. She then hooked up with a financially sucure mate ..and wanted me to return her escrow in spite of breaking the lease after only three months. I said that I would do so only if I was able to get the unit rented without losing any money. She then proceded to bug me every other day about it. I finally told her that if she continued ..that I would sue her for breaking the lease instead of getting her security deposit back ...could owe me about 3 months rent.

 

[TansLux]

Brian, I don’t know, I have read the following suggested partial from one landlord screening to include: employment info, prev. home address. photo identification, verifiable Social Security number. photo ID, to compare ID against information on the application, as well as applicant's W2 and pay stubs.

But again I’m unsure.

 

[Bob Woods]

I was a landlord for years, I sold all my properrty last year to take advantage of the 10 percet capital gains.

First off when you have a section 8 tenent the governmet pays the landlord not the tenent.

NEVER RENT TO A SECTION 8 TENENT

Don't expect much help from the section 8 office in getting rid of tenents. If you have proof file for a forcible eviction.

 

[Dave Hess]

I had a friend that was renting a house to a Cuban guy who recently came to Miami. My firend felt sorry for the family and decided to rent his home to these people. Three months later, he still did not pay any rent. When my friend went to the house to tell him that they were going to get evicted, the guy pulled a knife on my friend and told him to "make him leave the house"

So my friend had to go to court and legally throw them out.

cryptokid ,
Where in Palm Beach is your rental located ?? Only rent your property to people who have a real income, not some bums wanting a free ride.

[ March 27, 2005, 02:59 PM: Message edited by: LT4 Vette ]

 

[Schmoe]

Cryptokid.....what's the status? Anything new?

 

[Audi Junkie]

Florida? I know people in FL who would put these a-holes in a Veggie-Matic just for fun. I have only a few single appts and a nice City Townehouse to rent. Single people have better budgets for rent and I will physicly throw someone out who I don't like. What are they gonna do, sue? They have $ losses and YOU have $$$ losses. It evens out if you have to go to court, the rent from the current lessors will cover it. Headache solved. "That's good bass".

 

[HardbodyLoyalist]

It seems to me that if the people living in the house misrepresented their identies when they signed the lease, then they're not tenants... they're trespassers. The lease should be null and void.

Can you file trespassing charges and simply have them arrested?

I'll be interested to hear what an attorney says about this situation. Please update us when you hear something.

 

[Gary Allan]

Unfortunately most rental laws are heavily weighted for the occupant. In many cases the status of the "occupant" in secondary to the fact that indeed occupy the property and have be considered "tenants". The misrepresentation of their identity(ies) may not be recognised in that state as grounds for anything other than the normal lengthy eviction. That is, the fraud part of it will probably not be actively pursued by the district attorney without prompting from the landlord ..they've got bigger fish to fry for their political ambitions. This case falls into "filler".

 

[brianl703]

IF these people are actually in posession of fake driver's licenses, that might be something that the district attorney might be interested in.

If they just made up a number..well..next time, look at their license. Compare it to yours to see if it's fake.