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Dos and Dont's for Finding Good Tenants

Ask for the tenant's Social Security number, past landlords, W-2 forms and permission for a credit check. You can get complete applications and leases online at ezlandlordforms.com.

Do Make Sure Phone Numbers and People Match

You're often talking to a family member posing as the landlord! Go to whitepages.com to make sure the names and numbers are correct.

Do Go on Nopaytenants.com

Here's where landlords list the name of bum tenants who still owe them money.

Don't Rent to A Tenant Who Can Move in Tomorrow

If they can move in tomorrow, you probably don't want them moving in at all.

Don't Accept Cash or Rent Up Front

Rent paid in advance keeps you away from the property and you won't know what's going on. Rent offered in advance, especially all cash, is always a bad sign.

Don't Rent to a Tenant With a Messy Car

If their car is a mess, that's how they'll care for your property.

Don't Call Their Current Landlord

Current landlords might lie to get rid of a bad tenant. Call the previous landlord because they don't have the same secret mission to get rid of them.

Hello Karen,

Thank you for contacting NoPayTenants.com and we would like to share your Question and our Answer with the entire website community:

Q: I notice some tenant records have Unspecified $ for damages/rent owed. Do I need to put a dollar amount when posting? Do I need to wait for a court judgment against the tenant to post information?

A: In most cases when you see a dollar amount posted the rental property owner has calculated his/her damages to date or has been awarded a court judgment against the tenant. When a dollar amount is not displayed, it could be that the rental property owner has not calculated total damages in unpaid rent/repairs or may be awaiting a final judgment or interest on a court judgment amount changes the amount owed each day. Whatever the case, you do not need to put a dollar amount or await a court judgment when posting and you can update that data field at anytime.

Best wishes and thank you for using NoPayTenants.com!

Hello Beth,

Thank you for contacting NoPayTenants.com and we would like to share your Question and our Answer with the entire website community:

Q: How often is your tenant database updated and is there a restriction on how far back I can go with posting tenant rental history?

A: Everyday, tenant records are added and updated in our database. As more rental property owners learn about NoPayTenants.com, more tenant rental history becomes available. You are not limited to the age of your tenant's rental history and all database records remain until you remove the information from display.

It is recommended that you check NoPayTenants.com immediately before handing-over the keys to a new tenant to catch any last minute database entries from previous rental property owners.

Best wishes and thank you for using NoPayTenants.com!

Hello Terry,

Thank you for contacting NoPayTenants.com and we would like to share your Question and our Answer with the entire website community:

Q: One of my response-pending posts asked me to check out your site. So, before I recommend you to my readers, do you guys provide this service to people who own Vacation Rentals?

A: Our service is available to all rental property owners in the United States. Vacation rental owners need to be extra-extra careful when renting their property since these types of tenants have little to lose when they damage the leased premises. Also, vacation rental tenants from out-of-state know it's extremely difficult for a rental property owner to bring a lawsuit in another state to enforce the rental agreement and collect. Vacation rental tenants usually just walk away, never to return to their financial responsibility, leaving the rental property owner to pay for broken doors, windows, appliances, etc.

Please recommend our website to your readers, vacation rental owners, and inform all of your tenants that you report to NoPayTenants.com when there's a lease violation.

Best wishes and thank you for using NoPayTenants.com!

Hello Laura,

Thank you for contacting NoPayTenants.com and we would like to share your Comment and our Reply with the entire website community:

C: As soon as I subscribed / entered my former tenant's information I started getting spam & lots of it. I had not sent my email address to anyone prior to that. I am quite disappointed in this fact.

R: NoPayTenants.com never displays your email address or provides your user information to third-parties. All of your user information is strictly confidential and never released on the Internet.

We searched Google and your e-mail address is already out there, which is where the SPAM bots would have found you. None of the Google hits are from NoPayTenants.com and some of them are in highly visible areas (Yahoo and Craigslist), which are probably crawled daily for e-mail addresses for SPAM.

Please do not be disappointed and be assured that our high-security website protects your e-mail address from being revealed or used for SPAM.

Best wishes and thank you for using NoPayTenants.com!