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We are renting out a home in Illinois. The city wants a National background check done on the tenants.
Who should pay for this, the tenant or us?
Or where would I look to find this information?
When I googled it, it took me here.
Google "landlord credit check" and/or "tenant credit check" and you'll find a ton of different agencies. Maybe other contributors can help as far as who should pay for this. In large property company managed complexes the credit check charge is usually included in the rent application fee but I don't know how private landlords deal with it.
I'm reading the OP's post a little differently. Sounds to me like the city is requiring LL to run a criminal background check on a national level. I guess they can do that? If that is the case, I would ask the city where you are supposed to get this done. If they require it, they should know where to get it.
Thanks for the replies.
We have a management co, and they have already done a state criminal check and credit report, and we basically paid for that. But the city requires the national criminal check to "approve" the tenants, and they come out to check the house the approve that it is safe for the tenants.
This started a few years back, basically because there are hundreds of homes in the city that were breaking laws, rooms being rented out, parts of homes rented as "apartments" without proper safe exits, poor conditions, number of inhabitants exceeding the law, wires and stuff not up to code, etc. So the city started these inspections to make sure the rentals in the older part of town were safe.
The home we are renting out is a big single family home, less than 10 years old, in a very nice sub division, well kept up and maintained in all ways. Not a type of home taking advantage of people and cramming three times the legal inhabitants. (We don't have live wires hanging out of broken fixtures or mold growing up the bathroom walls, LOL)
But the city has to treat all rentals the same. The fee they want to charge for the national check isn't that much, but it is more of the principle of the thing. Since the city needs this to approve the tenants, I was thinking the tenants should be paying this.
The fee they want to charge for the national check isn't that much, but it is more of the principle of the thing. Since the city needs this to approve the tenants, I was thinking the tenants should be paying this.
Didn't I see somewhere on an Illinois government site that it's a little over $10? You have a management company so let them do their job and don't interfere.
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