Potential Tenant has own Criminal check

[Carolina E.]

I have been contacted by a teacher that is interested in the property. She states that her job does a yearly criminal check and wants me to use it. Hers was done in August of this year. I want to keep my application process the same for everyone, but I have been contacted a couple times with this scenario.

 What are your thoughts?

[Colleen F.]

I would just say no.  I  know they do these checks for certain professions but you really just need to make a policy and stick to it.  Who knows when someone will falsify a record.

You can just use fair housing and say that we need to treat everyone the same and based on our application process we need to have our own criminal record check.  (of course only if that is in fact true).  It is not a lack of trust in them but rather that you have set a standard that you will stick to.