tenant screening: is mylife.com a scam?

Question

Dear all,

I'm recently got a few applications for my rental property and as part of a screening, I was trying to search the tenant's name online, and the first Google result came from mylife.com.

I never used this site before and I see a mixed review online for it. I wonder how accurate the result is and if we can trust it? Without purchasing details, it currently shows the applicant has court records and 3.26 reputation score.

Thanks!

Yiming Li · Answer

I couldn't resist the curiosity and purchased the detail report, something came up was:

1) there was a traffic Minor Offenses (turned out to be true after verifying the country record)

2) a couple of dismissed bankruptcy filing around 2008~2009, (not sure where to check on this). The potential tenant does have a nice credit score ~770

If the above situations are real, would it be a red flag for this tenant?

Thanks

Greg M. · Answer

It's very accurate. I just checked and my grandmother has a reputation score of 3.75/5.0. A perfectly reasonable score for her. She's also listed as 110 years old and living in a neighboring city, which would be accurate if she didn't die in the 1980's. In due time I'm hoping she can raise her reputation score up to the 4.20 level that my deceased mother currently has. I'm concerned about my attorney who only had a 3.70 score and it gave me a warning that they found court records with his name. I wonder why my attorney would have his name in court records???