SmartMove Tenant Quality

[Mike M.]

SmartMove has been out there a couple years.  There's plenty of posts on if/how to use it, but I couldn't find much feedback from users about the quality of the tenants SmartMove has recommended.  I am considering it because the process appears to be pretty clean and covers many of the critical areas I want to screen for.  What do SmartMove users think of the quality of tenants it recommended?  For experienced landlords, how has the tenant quality compared to previous methods you've used?  

[Susan M.]

We use SmartMove but I don't understand what you mean by tenants they recommend?  We use it simply to check applicant credit and criminal history reports.  I know SmartMove then issues a "recommendation" but we pay no attention to that, we screen the reports ourselves and make our decisions based on that plus all the other research we've done. 

From what I've seen, they have recommended to "accept" only a few people that we have not accepted, and that decision was not based solely on the SmartMove information but on that information in conjunction with other research (like bankruptcy searches, eviction searches, etc).