Tenant Background Screening

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 write-offs.

Our tenant screening solutions can help with multi-family properties and student housing (we serve more than 100 area colleges and universities nationwide). We also offer back-end debt collection services through our sister company BYL Collection Services.

Identity Checks

Identity Verification, SSN Trace, Address History

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 Reliability Screens

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

Criminal Searches

National Criminal Database & 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 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

International Watch List

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

Rental History

RentForecast™

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.

Guarantor Financial History

Credit History Report & Credit Summary

Gain access to accurate and efficient financial analysis of the guarantor's (or applicant who is a self-guarantor) 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.