You are property manager of several properties. As you focus on staffing the numerous positions at your properties describe the different factors and skills of candidates that you are taking into consideration for staffing at the different properties. How might you confirm the honesty and abilities of candidates? (The manager before you was fired because several employees she hired committed crimes, were generally dishonest, or incompetent.)

Property types:

1. Residential, 50-unit apartment building

2. Neighborhood shopping center

3. Commercial building housing no people but co-hosting computer servers and other telecommunications equipment