Screening service without tenant involvement

[Jack B.]

I'm looking for a new screening service. The one I use now emails the tenants and asks them to to sign up and approve, etc. The system sends them an email and makes them jump through hoops, even though I enter their information into the system.

I would strongly prefer a service under $40 that allows me to just plug their information in and get results right away, without them being emailed and asked to fill out more forms by the system.

[Mike Makkar]

@Jack B., There are several online tools that avoid landlords having to type information and do things mostly online. Tenants can put their information in, they give their credit card and when a credit report is generated, they choose to share the credit report and previous rental information back to the landlord. 

I personally use cozy.co, to screen tenants and initiate leases. Once the lease starts, I use their free system to automatically ACH the rent into my bank. Again, there are hundreds of systems like this. 

Only issues with cozy is 4-6 day gap of transferring the ACH; no way to record expenses and record backdate payments (its meant for an ACH method). But otherwise as a screening tool, its very streamlined.