Tenant application background check

[Bryan Smith]

I live in a city that does not have a landlords association so I'm on my own when it comes to screening potential tenants. I feel my current system could be improved. Does anyone have advice on specific online background services that work for them at an affordable rate or techniques that have worked for them to weed out the potential problem tenants. Any and all advice is welcome. Thanks

[Allen Maris]

Hi Brian,

I use https://www.tenantverification.com/

Like many services, they give you a range of credit score and not the actual number. They do full background checks and eviction too if you buy that option.  It's hard to know how good everyone is unless you run cross checks with another service, but assuming they get a lot of info from one of the major services.

These guys have found evictions and credit issues with tenants so I've been pretty happy.

I also like that I can report payment history for the tenants, both good and bad. A little extra incentive for them to keep up on payments.

Allen