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.
Our suite of screening services make applicant decisions and tenant management easy
Access for unlimited number of users to our 24-hour web-enabled screening platform
Instant background, verification, and credit searches
Property management systems integration
Online access to detailed rental payment and rental collection histories
Corporate and international applicant screening
Debt collection services, where resident data is seamlessly transferred to an online debt collection platform
Complimentary pre-screening of applicant's income and asset analysis
Access to custom acceptance and denial letters
Run multiple searches simultaneously (for instance, joint applicant and guarantor)
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.
What you get with our tenant screenings
Identity Verification, SSN Trace, Address History
Identity Checks
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
Tenant Reliability Screens
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 Database & Sex Offender Search
Criminal Searches
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
Criminal Searches
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: 1-3 days
International Watch List
Criminal Searches
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: instant
Credit History Report & Credit Summary
Guarantor Financial History
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.
RentForecast™
Rental History
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.
Application Failure Alert
VeriFirst will monitor your weekly screening activity and send you a mobile-friendly alert based on the risk tolerances that your company has defined. If adjustments are required to improve your Pass/Fail criteria, you'll be able to do so quickly.
Collection Services
Leverage additional risk management services including Consumer and Commercial Debt Collection.
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.
