Look, I've been a landlord for 11 years now, and I'm tired of watching good people torpedo their rental applications over completely preventable mistakes. Just last month, I had this perfect tenant candidate - great job, solid income, excellent references - get denied by three different landlords before reaching me. Why? Because nobody had bothered to explain that her student loan default from 2019 was showing up as a collections account on her credit report, making her look like a deadbeat. Here's what kills me: the rental market is brutal right now, with qualified applicants competing for every decent property,...

Here's what pisses me off about people doing online investigations: they Google someone's name, find three outdated LinkedIn profiles and a Facebook page from 2019, then act like they've done thorough research. It's lazy, it's incomplete, and if you're making business decisions or legal judgments based on that kind of surface-level searching, you're asking for trouble. I learned this lesson the expensive way seven years ago when I was vetting a potential business partner for a $180,000 real estate deal. Google made this guy look clean - successful entrepreneur, glowing testimonials, solid social media presence. What I didn't find through...