Hard/Soft inquiries for our tennats/clients - Is that allowed?

[Daniel Bryant]

I own a commercial property in NYC and have clients who rent monthly units from us (similar to storage, but only with 24/7 access). The clients account to us through an automated credit card charge which we run once a month.

I was wondering if I can perform a soft/hard inquiry on future tenants once they apply for our rentals and if so how do I go about doing that?

We do have a merchant account and we are an LLC