Tenant Screening Foreigners

[Andrew Garcia]

Hello, BP Community!

I am currently trying to fill a vacancy on my LTR, and I have a person who is relocating to the US for work. He told me he doesn't have a credit score since he is from Switzerland, and I am not sure how my screening report of this person is going to look, but seems like a solid lead. Does anyone have experience screening foreigners who are relocating for work? Can you tell me how you screened them and what did you do differently than normal? Thanks in advance!

[Andrew Garcia]

 @Ricardo R.:

Hello, Ricardo. Thanks for the response! 

Just as an update, I did decide to accept this applicant as a tenant, and we have a commencement date for the lease starting on the first of next month. I did screen my "Tenant-Elect" using a lot of the methods you suggested. They did provide me with ample amount of documentation and they were extremely responsive and quick to answer any question I had. Honestly, they have been my best experience with tenant-screening so far. I hope I am not going to be eating my words later, but they met my screening criteria, minus the credit score.

I used AI to help me with my tenant screening and I asked AI for alternatives to credit reports and AI did give me suggestions so I asked my then-applicant to supply me with the report their country uses and they were able to satisfy my credit report criterion.