A manual review of potential 'hits' on a criminal record database search. Our trained and FCRA certified staff will review and update records prior to release, helping ensure accuracy, and reduce the risk of false-positive matches to your Applicant. Learn more
Every tenant has a story. Just don’t expect to read everyone like an open book. Unqualified rental decisions could end up costing your properties thousands of dollars in landlord/tenant legal actions, turnover costs, and bad debt right-offs. From front-end tenant screening solutions, to back-end debt collection services through our sister company BYL Collection Services, VeriFirst provides a consolidated suite of services that make applicant decisions and tenant management easy:
Enable access for unlimited number of users to our 24-hour web enabled screening platform
Obtain online rental applications
Enjoy complimentary pre-screening of applicant’s income and asset analysis
Get instant background, verification, and credit searches
Benefit from corporate and international applicant screening
Gain access to custom acceptance and denial letters
Utilize our property management systems integration
Save time with our debt collection services, where resident data is seamlessly transferred to an online debt collection platform
Identity Verification | SSN Trace: Get instantaneous verification of identity, including: full name, social security number, date of birth, known aliases, and prior address history. A comprehensive search of individuals associated with the same SSN is also performed to prevent fraud. Approximate turnaround time: INSTANT.
Tenant Eviction Record Search: Instantly search statewide court records to find out whether an applicant has a history of skips, property damage, or monies owed. Approximate turnaround time: INSTANT
National Criminal Background / Sex Offender Search: View criminal records from participating jurisdictions, administrative office of courts records, department of corrections, superior court index of felonies and misdemeanors and traffic court records, and sex offender records. Approximate turnaround time: INSTANT
County Criminal Court Records Search: A county level court search is often the most accurate, and up-to-date criminal search available. Records are manually and electronically researched at selected County Court(s) for criminal convictions including felony and misdemeanor offenses. Approximate turnaround time: 1 TO 3 DAYS
OFAC International SDN | Terrorist Search: Find out if your applicant has been identified by the Department of the Treasury as a threat to the interests and security of the United States. Approximate turnaround time: INSTANT
RentForecast™ provides instant access to millions of resident payment history records, calculating a numeric risk score that predicts an Applicant’s ability to pay their rent on time. Rental history data is statistically analyzed along with other payment transaction data such as mobile phone payments, check writing, insufficient funds (NSF), payments for club memberships and other alternative non-credit bureau data. This type of alternative data is not contributed to the credit bureaus today.
Multifamily | Financial History: Gain access to accurate and efficient analysis of an applicant's, co-applicant's and/or guarantor's financial status. Instantly view FICO
scores, summarized trade lines and detailed credit history information.
Data includes: Open accounts, public filings such as tax liens,
bankruptcies, judgments and eviction records, and payment histories.
VeriFirst also helps prevent fraud by providing applicable fraud alerts.
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Integrated Services
VeriFirst has integrated our resident screening services with other industry leading companies and their technologies.
Online Applications/ Leases:
Security Deposit Guarantor:
Property Management Software:
Need help with debt collection?
From front-end screening to back-end debt collection through our sister-company, BYL Collection Services, VeriFirst makes it easy to get the consolidated services you need through one reputable company. visit byl companies visit varo services
Did you know?
Using data from our sister company, BYL Collection Services, VeriFirst is able to look at a person's total credit cycle. The result is more accurate analysis, which enables customers to make better, more informed tenant decisions.
Resident Application Failure Alert
VeriFirst will monitor your weekly screening activity (credit fails, criminal fails, etc.) and deliver a mobile-friendly email alert to the corresponding regional manager/corporate users of the property(s) at risk based on tolerances that you define.
The alert will allow users to link directly to a new failed application summary report, which will provide additional insight as to why applications are failing your current screening criteria.
VeriTools: VeriGuide
Our VeriGuide Decision Assistant can help you make your decision quickly with an at-a-glance look at whether or not an applicant meets your requirements.
Need Vendor Screening?
Know exactly where your vendors stand when it comes to finances and business practices. Run background checks with VeriFirst’s line of vendor verification services. Learn More
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