Avoid Evictions with effective tenant screening by knowing what red flags to look for when evaluating rental applications.

By now, you would think that undesirable rental applicants would have a really hard time finding a place to live considering the incredible service and information that we have to offer our clients when it comes to obtaining a comprehensive background information about your potential rental applicants.  Prospective tenants have learned that they can pick and choose where they want to live by finding unsuspecting landlords who are gullible enough to believe their lies in not see the phony front are putting forward.  Those landlords who do not conduct thorough tenant screening are setting themselves up for a potential disaster.

What is even more amazing is that landlords don’t even have to pay for this information if they ask their rental applicants to pay for the screening.many of our clients get their potential tenants to pay for a background check to validate their potential tenant’s identity as well as to make a determination that there are no issues from the past that could easily recur in the future. This is especially true when an applicant has a history of criminal records, evictions, and money judgments.  There are plenty of rental applicants available today who don’t have any of these issues, even though they may have filed bankruptcy recently in the past several years.

Any rental applicant that is unwilling to sign a rental application and undergo an extensive background check will normally have a reason to hide something from their past and this is definitely not a good sign.  Also, be alert for any rental applicants that come to you and are in a big huge hurry to sign a lease with you. This is often a red flag to let you know that this person wants to get your approval before you have time to conduct a thorough background investigation on this individual.

Accepting undesirable tenants can often cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars in litigation expenses as well as lost income. Consider this, how much further ahead would you been had he just accepted the right tenant and not had to throw all this money out plus lose the rental income?

Our comprehensive reporting contained in a tenant background check helps give thousands of landlords the confidence to make good decisions on their rental applicants.

We are often asked what our Tenant Background Check includes and what is the difference between the Background Check that we offer and the Tenant Screening reports.   Both reports include a Background Check but the Tenant Screening also includes the credit report with a FICO Score.   The Background Check is compiled from nationwide data and is very comprehensive in scope.   It covers upwards of 30+ years (depending of course upon the age of the applicant) and is derived from very current and up-t0-date data.  These reports cover and extensive amount of information ranging from all of the previous addresses (including detailed information such as other household members) to a list of relatives and person associates with contact information. 

This tenant background check is vital for finding out if your applicant has ever had a judgment, eviction, lien, bankruptcy, or foreclosure.  It also reveals all criminal history, regardless of where the criminal action occured in the country.  Landlord’s simply cannot afford not to have this information contained within a Background Check to make good decisions on rental applicants.  It should come as no surprise that the court system is crowded nationwide with dockets flooded with landlord-tenant disputes that could have been avoided with a good tenant background check.

Our Tenant Background Check focuses on providing relevant data to landlords in order to make the determination if their applicants and free from the Red Flags that often indicate that a rental applicant is considered to be high risk.  Judgments and evictions, as well as criminal history are key items to watch out for.  Anyone who has a series of money judgments raise a red flag and should be considered to be high risk.  The same is true for any individual that has been forcefully evicted from a property.   And of course, criminal history goes without saying.  You simply don’t want to take a chance on placing an individual who is either a high risk for paying timely rent or threatened physical harm to your property or other individuals.

To order a Tenant Background Check, you will need to be prepared to have the full name(s) of your applicants along with date of birth and any address from the past 10 years.  It is helpful to have a Social Security Number but it is not mandatory.  We can normally find just about anyone if we can get enough basic information to identify the individual.   We also offer a FREE Background Check on the spouse or partner if the second person is included in the original order.   We are certain that you can elminate upward or 85-90% of the bad tenants if utilize our tenant screening and background check reporting properly by not accepting tenants who are obviously high risk based upon their track records.