In the past I have always used brokers to rent out the vacant apartments in my building, but I always felt bad about the hefty (15%) broker’s fee the tenants had to pay. Now that Craigslist has made it so easy, I am renting the apt. on my own. My question–how do other landlords run credit checks on prospective tenants? Thanks, in advance, for the advice.


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  1. We offer reports so that you can determine nationwide data from every court in all 50 states including all judgments, evictions, liens, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and criminal records. The key to doing a good background check is to ask your prospective tenant to complete a rental application – there is a free rental application available at http://tenantscreeningbackgroundcheck.com and then compare the data that you receive in your tenant background check. A comprehensive tenant screening report will provide you with a complete and detailed address history. A good quality tenant background check will help you eliminate the vast majority of bad tenants.

  2. I think is a big investment when you buy a property. Wich most of tenants dont care. Is very important that when you are deciding who’s is going to be in your apartment to be realy sure of who is going to live there.

    I just think If a tenant wont open the door to a stranger why should I give him access to my apartment. Court in New York takes 2 months to take them out of your apartment if you are agresive in court other than that is can go 6 ,7 months to finish the case.

    When I am checking for a tenant, I prefer to do all the work my self. Why? Realtors are ready for the commision, after they dont care no more, must of the time.

    So the first thing I let the applicants know, that I going to check the housing court Records, Credict check, Landlord referall.

    I elliminate a lot of people this way, Working people are 20 Points in my application. Working people are more responsible and they have less time to be messing around in the house.

    You can check for company that give this services on people backgrounds, on the internet.

    So Landlords i sugest to do your work up front for better results in your investments.

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