Tenant Selection Policy

Before leasing from Scranton Veatch LLC, a single tenant or a tenant group must qualify.

A single tenant qualifies thus:

• Completes a rental application accurately.
• Agrees to the Landlord's Lease Agreement, and Terms.
• Has credit score above 620 on MyRental.com
• Has no evictions in the 4 years preceding today.
• Has verified income > 3x their contribution to rent.
• Non smoker.
• No pets (or agrees to Pet Lease).
• Contactable references.
• Current and previous landlords for 3 years would rent to you again.

A tenant group qualifies if all its members qualify as single tenants AND (a) AND (b) AND one of (c) or (d):

(a) The group contains at most five individuals, with at most four unrelated adults.

(b) Agrees to a Constitution with all the other group members:

• This is a signed agreement between the tenants themselves.
• The landlord is not a party to the Constitution.
• It enables the group to govern itself with the force of contract law, and gives you the teeth to enforce your decisions.
• The tenants as a group must have the right to eject a member by majority vote in extreme cases such as non-compliance with a group decision, non-payment of a share of rent or bills, etc.
• You can write it yourselves and put whatever else you like into it, but a useable draft is here.

(c) The group has five members.

(d) The group has three or four adult members who jointly-and-severally agree to pay the full house rent.

If multiple individual or group tenants qualify within the two weeks preceding a tentative lease start date, preference may be given, within Landlord's judgement subject to the constraints of law, first to a full group of five, second to a group with verified group or individual income of 3x rent, third based on credit scores, fourth with history of living in cooperative housing, fourth with gender balance.