Tenant Screening

Tenant Screening and Landlord Credit Checks

Tenant screening is aa essential part of our business – our goal is to save our clients’ money by helping them make the most informed rental decisions.

Our tenant background checks, enables you to decrease the likelihood of property damage, late payments, or crimes committed by your tenants on your rental property – for which you may be liable!

We offer a variety of services to assist during the tenant screening process, including current public record criminal information, as well as tenant credit checks and residence verifications in which we conduct interviews with your applicant’s current and previous landlords, asking important questions regarding their rental history. These landlords will often give you an insight into this applicant that is unable to be obtained anywhere else – such as whether the tenant paid rent on time or did any property damage, allowing you to get to know how this individual is as a tenant, before you allow them into your property.

Tenant Screening Reports

What are your tenant screening options? We provide the following for tenant screening services:

• Credit Reports- reflect information from the past 7

• Criminal Background Checks (county, state, or nationwide)

• Current and Previous Landlord Verifications

• Employment Verifications (including work history and salary when possible)

• Eviction Records

• Social security number verification to identify misused numbers

• Tax liens

• Address check to identify misused addresses

• Judgements against the applicant

• Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Records

• Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Records

Credit Reports

Tenant Credit Reports reflect information from the past 7 years of credit history and include:

• Credit Score

• Social Security Number verification to identify misused numbers

• Address Checks to identify misused addresses

• Employment information (where available)

Criminal Records

Criminal record checks can be run on all applicants and with the help of prior address checks can be customized and run in all previous jurisdictions that the applicant has lived in. Criminal record reports options are:

• Countywide Criminal Records

• Statewide Criminal Records

• Nationwide Criminal Records

• Federal Felony Convictions

• International Criminal Records

Civil Court Records

• Eviction Records (run separately since they are no longer provided on credit reports)

• Tax Liens against the applicant

• Judgements against the applicant

• Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Records

• Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Records

Verification

• Employment verification - including work history & salary (when possible)

• Current & Previous Landlord Verification

Commercial Tenant Credit Checks

Commercial Tenant Credit Reports allow commercial property managers to make informed decisions when considering commercial tenants for retail, office or warehouse space. To find out more, click on Commercial Tenant Check.

Contractor Background Checks

If you need repairs made to your rental property, running contractor background checks can be a helpful tool in making informed decisions before allowing contractors on your property.

• Nationwide Criminal Background Check

• Business License Search

• Business Credit Reports

For more information visit our Contractor Background Check page.

Tenant Screening Forms

• Tenant Applicant Form or download .PDF

• California Addendum Online Form or download .PDF

• Tenant Screening Adverse Action

• If you need a copy of your own rental history, you can obtain it by clicking on My Rental History

• Tenant Credit Check - SAMPLE Report

Tenant Screening Articles

• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about Tenant Screening





• 5 Things to do before renting out your house

• Eviction Records

• What to expect from "free" background check sites

• Landlords & Property Managers: Using Credit Reports

• The Importance of Landlord Credit Checks & Tenant Screening

• Major Credit Bureaus Removing Tax Liens from Credit Reports

• How far back does a criminal record check go?

• Online Background Checks - Do Online Databases Provide Accurate Information?

• How can a candidate's current or past income be verified if the employer won't release salary information?

• Background Checks & Social Media - Using Court Records & not Search Engines or Social Media.

• Key Differences between In-House and Outsourced Background Checks

• Restore your credit rating

NEW Customer Signup

AAA Credit Screening Services charges NO Signup Fee, No Monthly Fees & No Annual fees! You only pay for the reports you want to order. Signup is 3 easy steps and once you're signed up, you can start ordering reports online. Click on the button below to complete our online Customer Service Agreement:


Click on Tenant Screening for ordering procedures.
If you need a copy of your own rental history, you can obtain it by clicking on My Rental History

Disclosures, Policies & Rights

• Disclosure Regarding Employment Investigative Report

• Summary of Rights

• Criminal Reporting Policies

• Investigative Consumer Report Disclosure

• Vermont Statute Section 2480e

• California Summary of Rights