GlobeSt.com SPECIAL: Profiling Apartment Tenants a Hot Topic

ORLANDO-When the National Multi-Housing Association puts tenant profiling procedures on its convention discussion agenda, as it did in Chicago last week, it’s a hot topic.

Today, more than ever before, property managers in Florida are paying closer attention to qualifying prospective tenants. They don’t want to be embarrassed again as one of their colleagues was in Delray Beach, FL just prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC.

The topic heated up after the property manager disclosed to the FBI that she had rented an apartment for 90 days, without credit or criminal background checks, to two of the 19 terrorists who killed themselves and 6,000 office employees in the destruction of the World Trade Towers in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. The terrorists paid their rent and security deposit in cash with large bills.