I last wrote that you should never accept a credit report provided by the applicant due to easy online availability of fake credit reports. In this post, I would like to explain why even a valid credit report is inadequate by itself when screening a rental applicant. Credit reports do not contain enough information to […]
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Why you shouldn’t use a credit report provided by a rental applicant
Here is a big reason why you should never use a credit report provided by the rental applicant for an application. It is quite easy to get fake one. Simply by Google “Fake credit report” and fill out the on-line pdf. Here is a link to one of the sites so you can see for […]
Paper rental applications? Do you know what century we’re in?
It never ceases to amaze me the number of agents, landlords and property managers that still use paper applications. In my last 2 posts I covered how paper applications can complicate Fair Housing compliance and the create personal data security problems. Today we will look at how time consuming paper applications are, how they make […]