conducting a tenant background check is vitally important but yet most landlords mistakenly ignore this step entirely and base their decisions solely upon appearance and their gut instincts about their rental applicants. The key to success for landlords is to harness the power of knowledge!
Bankruptcy Filings Found in a Tenant Background Check Very frequently when we are conducting a tenant background check, we discover that the applicant has filed for bankruptcy at some point in the past. A bankruptcy filing is not necessarily a negative from the prospective of checking a potential tenant’s background history. For example, we see…
Tenant Background Check: How to Effectively Investigate Rental Applicants We have found that many landlords fail to take advantage of the tremendous reporting capabilities that we offer in our proprietary tenant background check report. Most Tenant Background Screening reports do not disclose anywhere near the kind of extensive background history and records that we provide…
Evaluating Tenants with a Background Check We are often asked what our Tenant Background Check includes, and what is the difference between the “Background Check” and “Tenant Screening” reports. Both include a Background Check but the Tenant Screening also includes the credit report with a FICO Score. The Background Check is compiled from nationwide…