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Background Checks Systems, Inc. provides public landlord-tenant court records, specific to rental housing payments, to help property managers and private landlord clients select the applicants who are most likely to fulfill their lease obligation. This extensive tenant rental information is not available from credit reports, yet has proven to be a leading indicator of future rental payment behavior. No other service offers such comprehensive information designed specifically for the multifamily housing industry.

Check them out before you let them check in!

Benefits:

  • Reduces the likelihood of resident skips and evictions by better predicting future rental payment performance
  • Decreases the costs associated with collections, lost rent, vacancy and resident damage
  • Saves time: with less evictions to handle, leasing staff can focus on revenue building activities
  • The industry's largest database of landlord-tenant records
  • Collections conducted at thousands of court houses across the country
  • Hundreds of thousands of new records added monthly
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Requirement: In order to process your request, you must fax signed rental application after placing your online order to 305-402-3181 or upload scanned application into your secure account. Our document management services allows you to upload all types of documents (applications, signed releases, photo ID, etc.) for each applicant. It works for you as an off-site filing cabinet. And best of all, It's free!

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Can't find what you are looking for? Our site contains over 230 pages of free information about tenant background checks. Visit our Google site search tool located in our sitemap.

Rental Income Landlords: I am a private landlord, how do I screen a renter without a credit report?

Our Cost-Effective Solution for Small & Individual Landlords:

Background Checks Systems uses sophisticated search logic to automatically compare the applicant to information in Background Checks Systems databases. A comprehensive, easy to read tenant rental background check report is delivered summarizing the applicant's landlord- tenant court records. Those very same search algorithms are applied to a nationwide criminal search and our social security/identity verification report to ensure you are screening the applicant's true identity and not a relative with clean records. Our detailed $39.95 report includes:

  • SSN alert: notifies you of potential issues with an applicant's SSN
  • Identity Verification: Verifies name, aliases and past address history associated with your input.
  • Nationwide Criminal Records and Sex Offenders Database Search based on current name and DOB client input.
  • Court records on file including:
  • Failures to pay rent
  • Unlawful detainers
  • Judgments, liens for possession
  • Judgments for money
  • Judgments for rent
  • Writs or warrants for eviction
  • Bankruptcies
Larger Property Managers of Multi-Housing Units

Recent changes in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) will now require physical on-site inspections of the premises of landlords who retrieve credit reports on potential tenants as well as a due diligence background check on the landlord or property management company. This is being done in order to ensure that credit reports are dealt with in a professional and confidential manner, kept locked up securely, etc. In the case of a small landlord whose office is in their residence, Experian, Equifax and TransUnion requires that the property management office is separate from the living area of the residence. And that it is secure. There is a one-time set-up fee of $175.00 to cover cost from a third-party credit bureau designated verification company. This requirement only applies if you are ordering consumer credit reports.

Please contact us at (305) 663-6268 or by email for special volume pricing on instant credit score reports and customized tenant screening packages.

Please Read: If you are using public records based due diligence search results to make a rental decision, please abide by FCRA Guidelines.

Using consumer credit reports: What landlords need to know.