Background check company/website

[Eric Kelly]

I am a landlord & I am looking for a background check company

[Kenny Dahill]

Hi @Eric Kelly.  There's been several already thrown out but figured I would share a little insight.

Landlord Software:  Every management software offer a background check feature.  This includes Cozy, Burbz, TurboTenant, Tenant Cloud, etc.  If you're only needing the background checks then consider the free sites or else you'll pay a monthly fee for a single feature you only need rarely.

Reporting Sites:  There are sites that only offer screening reports and no other management features.  This would be RentPrep, TenantReports, etc.  Same concept.

Background Company:  There are only 3-4 major players in the industry (Transunion, Experian, etc.).  All the landlord software and Reporting sites still use these major players to generate the actual report.  So there shouldn't be too big of a difference whomever the retail site you got it from, perhaps a difference depending if the report company is different.

**edit**  Free:  All the sites offer this service for 'free'.  FREE is marketing because the applicants will actually pay for it.  Some sites do allow the landlord the choice to pay; as expected, few landlords typically do.  The applicants will receive an email with the link to pay.

We partner with RentPrep because they include hand-review as part of their process.  It's just one more step to provide quality reports and better protect the landlord.  To my knowledge, RentPrep is the only firm from Landlord or Reporting sites that includes it.  They also partner with other Landlord Software Sites.

Hope this is helpful and provides a little more insight.  If you have any question, please let me know and I'd be happy to address them.