A quick suggestion to landlords ( and/or tenants, for that matter) to check at the county courthouse in the clerk's office computers for any applicants to rentals you may be listing (or applying to as a prospective tenant). I discovered this resource when I was standing in line there in the endless course of an eviction I was undertaking and found the name of the tenant along with a page-long list of previous legal encounters, including another eviction little more than a year before. word to the wise....