You can now run a eviction search from www.quickbackgroundchecks.com to see if any one has ever been evicted. How cool is that!! I don’t think this information was available a few years ago. You can search by state so if they have moved from one city to another no problem. I would never rent to anyone who has been evicted I sure don’t want to be the next in line. This may be the most important background check you can do in tenant screening.
Did you ever want to know if someone has been evicted? Now you can run a eviction search to find that out. This search was not available a few years but it is now. I think they collect the information from the J P courts. One thing our company does is to run a criminal background check and a eviction search before we lease to someone. We have found several people who have been evicted when we thought they were just fine. You would be surprised. I think www.instantbackgroundchecks.us is good source to find this information out.
Driving records are one of the first things our company runs when hiring a new employee. Our insurance company requires that we do this and we also like to know what kind of driving history this potential new hire has. If they have had DWI’S or DUI’S we flat out do not hire them. If they have done it once they will do it again if they get stressed out about something. Criminal background check is also run before hiring any new employees we look for assault and drug issues. We go thru www.quickbackgroundchecks.com for our background checks their reports come back quickly and are easy to read.
Tenant screening in Texas which is where our management company is a standard process. I would never never let a tenant into our apartments without a tenant credit check. In some states where the market may be soft they may be tempted to wave the tenant credit check. I don’t care how soft the rental market maybe I would never suggest this it will come back to haunt you. If you want to know what other states are doing you might want to go to www.landlord.com to see what others are saying.
When we run someones credit report one of the first things we look for is their fico score. I guess most people think doing a tenant credit check may not be that important but trust me it is. Our management company has a company policy we never lease to anyone who has a fico score below 640. The scoring goes like this 600 to 640 is a “C” rating , 640 to 700 is a “B” rating and 700+ is a “A” rating. Why would anyone take the change of leasing to anyone with a “D” rating is seems to me you are just asking for problems. Our management company uses www.quickbackgroundchecks.com to run our credit that is what they recommend also.
When hiring a new employee our company always does a employee verification of his criminal record and driving record. It is our company policy that when we run our employee background checks they must come back with a credit score of over 600 and no DWI’S on the driving record. Our insurance company requires the driving records have no DWI’S or our insurance rates go way up. Our company uses www.instantbackgroundchecks.com for our criminal and driving records we don’t have to wait for their records they company on the spot.
Our business used to only run employment background checks on existing employees 
until one day a light bulb went off and we thought what about the employees who are already working here we know nothing about them so we decided we needed to do a employee verification on new as well as existing employees if we didn’t we really could not say who had criminal records and who didn’t. We have not let any existing employees go with criminal records but I would say we watch them a little closer. For more information on this subject you can just go to reference.com.
Our company does tenant screening on all new potential residents. We have a company policy that we do not lease to anyone with a FICO score on their tenant credit report under 640. A FICO score of 640 is just a “C” rating. If you lease to someone with a score below 640 your are getting into a “D” rating. They have quite a few unpaid bills and collections. Our company chooses not to lease to these people because we do not want to be their next creditor. We run the reports while the resident is in the office and use www.instantbackgroundchecks.us. They are the best for tenant credit reports.
This couple came to rent my duplex all excited as I had just remodeled it. I told them I would be doing a criminal background check. They said fine no problems. They filled out the rental application form signed the bottom stating all information above was true and correct. I ran the police check it came back no problems found. I received a call 2 days after they moved from the sheriffs department telling me the husband was on probation and they were looking for him. I now use a company www.crimefinder.com to run all my police checks and ALWAYS get a copy of a picture ID to make sure the information I am running is CORRECT….
I own a small apartment complex and we have a policy that we never lease to anyone with a credit report, and the fico score must be over 640. Doing a tenant credit check has helped me weed out a lot of undesirables if they are not paying their creditors I do not want to be the next in line. I usually have my laptop with me and approve them or deny them on the spot using www.quickbackgroundchecks.com.They have saved my day. Their information comes back instantly. I love this quick technology.