[Hondaracer]

Yea that’s a pretty good outline for tenants

The first tenants we ever had we went off gut feel. They were a couple originally from the states but super nice people, he had a doctorate in mathematics lol. They lived there for just over 2.5 years before needing a larger space due to a baby. We are still friends and they come to our parties etc. 3 years later

Our current tenant was a friend of a friend. Imo this is one way to ensure accountability with your tenant if you have a mutual contact. She’s been great as well.

One thing I learned early on is that if you say you require post-dated cheques that weeds out a lot of losers who either A) don’t have a chequing account, or B) can’t be bothered to get cheques if that was the case. We always just take e-transfers anyways but it’s a bit of an indicator.

We also have a fairly large list of addendums on top of the regular tenancy agreement including things like no smoking on the property etc. some of them are also worded in a way that would (hopefully but doubtful) hold up in court if it was to come to that. We always give the addendums to the tenant and have them thoroughly read through and initial each one

This is for a basement suite so as said above it’s a bit different in your own home but for a different rental property I’d probably approach it the same.

If I meet someone and show the unit and they are already going on about relationship problems, work problems, school problems, etc. it’s an automatic no.