TVS Changes credit check procedures

[James Conaway]

I have rented before and used screening service called TVS, Tenant Verification Service to pull credit, rental and criminal reports.

I have not pulled a report in a while and they have apparently changed the way they operate, in that the renter now pulls their own reports and supplies them to me. They are presenting this change as a better way of doing the checks in that the renter has to invest time to get the report pulled to supply it to me. The reasoning being that if they are slow in pulling their own reports they are going to be slow in paying the rent.

I do not like this change and was curious to know if some law was passed that requires all landlords into this new process. Do all other screening services now follow this procedure or is it just TVS?