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Hello,
After reading recommendations on this site for tenant screening, I decided to sign up for Transunion MySmartMove. But in the process, it says that it will not run the criminal checks on Cook County residents. ...
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An applicant for my house in California has recently lived in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and I want to do my own background checks by county. If I know she has lived in Merrimack county New Hampshire, is there ...
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I am accepting applications for new tenants and am curious what background check sites or apps are preferred by landlords. And why?
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How do you screen international applicants? Are there special clauses added to the lease, such as additional deposit requirements, etc, in order to rent to international applicants? I have some very nice international...
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I have an IT background - business degree /Starting out with real-estate investing.I have been thinking in real-estate investing for a long time, I wanna be my own boss and finically independent after all the hard wor...
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Hi
I have one rental property that I am getting ready to advertise for new tenants (current tenants are buying a house of their own).
What sites are you all using to do background and credit checks? I w...
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There is an international high school next to my house that has foreign language speakers come to the U.S. and teach their language. One of those teachers wants to rent a room from me since I live close to the school....
For the most part I've always done the leg work on screens possible tenant. For the most part I've done pretty well. ( nothings guaranteed)I find it's time to let someone else do it. So I can free up some of my time....
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I'm looking for recommendations for a background/credit check website for tenant screenings, where I would be the one to pay for it, so it can be free to the tenants. Is it possible to check their background for all t...
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Hi BP,I had an possible tenant send me an application last week on Apartments.com. We discussed the unit and talked a bit and everything looked great. This morning however, I jumped on Apartments.com to do some stuf...