Home buyers can secure financing with as little as a pay stub and a bank statement.
Evictions alone cost property owners billions a year.
But even a single poor choice can cost thousands. None of the national trade groups representing the apartment industry keeps tabs on eviction costs, probably because each locality is different. That figure may be conservative. There aren't any good national statistics on the number of evictions, either. There were 7,000 evictions in the six-county region during the first four months of 1998.