Heck, I even heard a guy on the podcast talk about filtering by criminal records, haha.If there's any kind of inspector-client confidentiality rule or law, perhaps you could just ask him about that before moving forward.

Because by doing this the applicant was able to pay the $29 and you got the credit report, back ground check and criminal history check.

Criminal activity is not a protected class and actual values and opinion of values and their trajectory is just data, right?

As we all know criminal cases take a ton of time.

Of course, if you became aware of your tenants using the electrical or the telephony services to carry out criminal acts, the situation would change similarly.

Laws around the country are preventing housing providers from running background checks, criminal history, credit history, eviction history.

Any criminal history for anyone?

Not for damages but my sister was asked to assist in criminal prosecution of her tenant for passing bad checks. 

I did take out a criminal warrant against the female as she was the one with the steadier employment. 

Failure to follow those regulations can expose you to tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal exposure, both civil and criminal.