Screaning Tenants

[Kirk Roberts]

Hello everyone.  I am looking for the best website to run a check on tenants prior to them moving in without spending a lot of $$.  Anyone have any advice?  Thanks

[Jeff Bridges]

I second recommendation of smartmove via USAA. Great pricing and detailed reports. It even listed speeding tickets for my otherwise squeaky clean tenants.

I also recently go background/credit checks using Cozy's $35 background/credit check service that uses experian. It looks somewhat comprehensive, however the accounts provided on the credit reports were not as detailed as smart-move reports. They both would likely show any red flags that need to be waived, just the smart move showed more details about the accounts opened and number of ontime payments, open date etc and current and prior addresses associated with their credit... Checkr does the criminal checks for cozy and they just had check-boxes that show "clear" when there was nothing to report for criminal, eviction, terrorist watchlist (very amusing). Cozy does not provide confirmation of prior addresses on credit report, which is disappointing.

Smart-move provides more details in general.