Andrea Juliet Razevich I always casual ask in conversation how do the pay the rent, I find that if they are lieing I'll trip them up. For example I had a family apply a couple months ago the wifes story was the owner was selling in a conversation I asked how she pays she said Zelle, I said oh perfect and you do a search for the rental amount on you banks website and print the history for me... Turns out they were renting a room from the dad in a hoise he was renting and although they pay the dad with zelle it was no where close to the amount she said they were paying in rent. I didn't end up renting to them not because of their situation but because they lied... My ad's specifically say we'll work with "almost"anyone so long as they are honest and can afford the rent.I've also been know to hunt down the "Real" home owner and question them, I've had countless people put down their friends name and number. When I start asking about the house and how long they've owned the house (Casual noisy owner chit-chat that 99.9% of private owners would know about the house if it was theirs). I had on ladies friend correct me when I pronounced the applications name wrong, lol. No, private owner would do that!