Overview
Background checks are useful only when applied uniformly. The moment they're not, they become a fair-housing liability.
Background checks are useful only when applied uniformly. The moment they're not, they become a fair-housing liability.
Run background checks through a consumer-reporting agency with the applicant's written consent, judge results against pre-written criteria, and send an adverse-action notice whenever a report contributed to a denial.
Background checks are useful only when applied uniformly. The moment they're not, they become a fair-housing liability.
Doing this yourself through public-record searches creates accuracy and compliance exposure without saving much. A reporting agency carries the dispute process and the identity matching.
What you control is the criteria and the consistency. Write the standard first, apply it to everyone, and record the reason for each decision.
1. Publish the criteria. 2. Run the same report on every applicant. 3. Decide against the published standard. 4. Issue adverse-action notices when a report drives the decision. 5. Retain the record.
Commonly the applicant, through an application fee, and several states cap that fee or require an itemised receipt. Check your cap before setting the amount.
Take applications online, apply criteria uniformly, and turn a screened applicant into a signed lease.
Run credit, eviction, and background screening against published criteria while staying within fair-housing rules.
Run credit, eviction, and background screening against uniform criteria. Automatic adverse-action notices keep fair-housing risk down.
From signed lease to first day of tenancy — the checklist for onboarding a new resident cleanly.
Draft a lease that captures the essentials, respects state law, and can be signed on a phone.
Renew a lease on time without turning it into an eviction risk.
$49/month includes 5 units, then per-unit pricing that drops as you grow. Optional modules are billed separately and must be added deliberately.
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