Overview
Screening is the highest fair-housing-risk step in the rental cycle. The way to reduce risk is to publish criteria and apply them uniformly.
Screening is the highest fair-housing-risk step in the rental cycle. The way to reduce risk is to publish criteria and apply them uniformly.
Screening means checking identity, income, rental history and public records against criteria you wrote down before you saw the file — then documenting the decision and sending an adverse-action notice on every denial.
Screening is the highest fair-housing-risk step in the rental cycle. The way to reduce risk is to publish criteria and apply them uniformly.
Screening exists to answer one question: is this household likely to pay this rent and keep this unit in condition? Credit score alone answers neither. Income relative to rent, stability of address and employment, and prior landlord history carry more signal.
The legal exposure is not in the checking, it is in the inconsistency. Fixed criteria, applied identically, with a written reason for each denial, is what makes screening defensible.
1. Publish credit floor, income multiple, and criminal-history policy. 2. Run the same reports on every applicant. 3. Decide against the published standard, not personal judgment. 4. Adverse-action notice on every denial driven by a report. 5. Retain records of decisions for at least four years.
Commonly 2.5x to 3x monthly rent in gross income, all household earners counted. Write the number down before you list the unit.
When a consumer report contributed to the decision, an adverse-action notice is required, including how to obtain and dispute the report.
Take applications online, apply criteria uniformly, and turn a screened applicant into a signed lease.
Background checks with published criteria, adverse-action notices, and a defense against fair-housing claims.
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.
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