Understanding TransUnion SmartMove reports

[Nick Jensen]

We just used SmartMove for two potential tenants who would be sharing the house we're renting. This is our first time screening tenants. The process was very easy and the applicants were able to complete the process without a hitch. Now we have reports for each applicant, but we're not sure how to interpret/investigate one of the "red flags".

- One of the tenants has a criminal background. There are links to 6 different cases with case numbers but no information about the cases themselves. All we know is that these reports were from California. Where does one go to look up the case numbers with more detailed info about the crime?

[Matthew L.]

That's about as non-threatening of a "crime" as it gets. I'd absolutely rent to them as long as everything else with their background and credit check is good; I wouldn't even ask them for an explaination about something that minor.