APPLICATION CRITERIA
  1. All adult applicants 18 or older must submit a fully completed, dated and signed residency application and pay the fee.  Applicant must provide proof of identity.  A Non-refundable fee of $60.00 will be required for all adult applicants.  Applicant may be required to be approved by a condo/homeowners association and may have to pay an additional application fee or an additional security or damage deposit.
  2. Applicants must have a combined gross income of at least 2.5 times the monthly rent.  A minimum of two years residential history is required.
  3. Credit history and or Civil Court Records must not contain judgements, eviction filing, collections owed to any property management company or property owner.  If there are a number of slow pays on the report, a prospective resident may be required to pay a higher deposit equal to no more than two month’s rent.
  4. Self-employed applicants may be required to produce upon request 2 years of tax returns or 1099s and non-employed individuals must provide verifiable proof of income (bank statement from the past 30 days, social security or pension letters, etc.)
  5. All sources of other income must be verifiable if needed to qualify for a rental unit.
  6. Criminal records must contain no convictions for misdemeanors for crimes involving violence, assault or batter, drugs, firearms, felonies within the past seven years and no sexual offenses ever.  In the event a record comes back “adjudication withheld”, “nolle prosse” or “Adjudication deferred”, further documentation may be required, and applicant may be denied on this basis.  For sexual offenders, no matter the adjudication status, convictions of any sort are considered grounds for denial of application.
  7. Previous rental history reports from landlords must reflect timely payment, sufficient notice to vacate, no complaints regarding noise, disturbances or illegal activities, no unpaid NSF checks, and no damage to unit or failure to leave the property clean and without damage at time of lease termination.
  8. No pets (with the exception of medically necessary pets for the benefit of the occupant(s) of any kind are permitted without specific written permission of landlord in a Pet Addendum attached to the Lease.  The amount of fees and deposits are determined by RPM.
  9. A minimum non-refundable property preparation fee may be charged to the new Resident at the time of lease signing.  This fee, in the amount of $75.00, will rekey the property unless the new Resident signs a waiver.
  10. Applicants will be required to pay a security deposit at the time of lease execution in a minimum amount of one month’s rent.  We reserve the right to require a higher security deposit and or additional prepaid rent.
  11. The number of occupants must be in compliance with HUD standards/guidelines for the applied for unit (a maximum of "two heartbeats" per bedroom).
  12. We may require a holding or good faith deposit to be collected to hold a property off the market.  In the event the application is approved, and applicant fails to enter into a lease, the applicant shall forfeit his deposit.  In the event the application is approved, this deposit shall be applied to the required security deposit.
  13. Any exceptions to our company’s criteria will need to be submitted in writing to the rental agent for presentation to the owner/landlord for consideration.  If approval is then given for such exceptions, additional security, co-signers, and/or additional advance rent payments may be required.
  14. Our company policy is to report all non-compliances with terms of your rental agreement or failure to pay rent, or any amounts owed to the credit bureau and/or a collection agency and if the amount is disputed, it shall be reported as disputed in accordance with law.