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Most landlords private and property management, will do credit checks and criminal backround checks. They will verify income and employment. They will ask for and contact previous landlords. Some will require that the rent not constitute more than 30% of monthly income and require pay receipts as proof.
Court ordered evictions will also turn up on backround checks, and if you have one of those you will never rent again anywhere in Seattle.
However in Texas where tenant removal is a much easier process, I think such backround check extremes would not be usual.
Most landlords private and property management, will do credit checks and criminal backround checks. They will verify income and employment. They will ask for and contact previous landlords. Some will require that the rent not constitute more than 30% of monthly income and require pay receipts as proof.
Court ordered evictions will also turn up on backround checks, and if you have one of those you will never rent again anywhere in Seattle.
However in Texas where tenant removal is a much easier process, I think such backround check extremes would not be usual.
Any Landlord who wants to know who they're renting to will do one.
Most apartment communities who do background checks are required to
by there corporate office, it's part of the rental process.
If the application states that there will be a background check and asks
for a signiture in order to process, then they'll be doing a background check.
Last edited by virgode; 07-06-2009 at 01:13 AM..
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In my area (NC), every apartment community does a criminal background check in addition to the credit, income and residential history checks. Most communities do not accept any felony of any time, regardless of the date. A few will accept them if they're older than years, but not many. There are also some common misdemeanors that are treated the same way, like any crime against a person, drug related charges, financial related charges or anything related to fraud.
Nearly all private landlords in my area do criminal/income/credit/etc. checks. I do know of two rather large apartment complexes that don't do any checks at all but they're a bastion for violence, rape, shootings, drug dealing etc.
Pretty much the type of place you imagine where they don't do any type of checks.
I have a service that alerts me any time there is any change or inquiry to my credit. I have paid so-called background and/or credit check fees ranging from $25 - $50 and have yet to be notified of any credit check. In one case where I remained in contact with a previous rental manager I was told that there were no inquires as to my rental history.
I think in most cases if a prospective tenant presents him/herself is a professional manner, that is, decently dressed with clean hygiene most tentative landlords will opt to simply pocket the money.
I have a service that alerts me any time there is any change or inquiry to my credit. I have paid so-called background and/or credit check fees ranging from $25 - $50 and have yet to be notified of any credit check. In one case where I remained in contact with a previous rental manager I was told that there were no inquires as to my rental history.
I think in most cases if a prospective tenant presents him/herself is a professional manner, that is, decently dressed with clean hygiene most tentative landlords will opt to simply pocket the money.
That is completely untrue. As we've already established in MANY of your other threads, you've apparently had bad experiences with landlords. Virtually ALL landlords screen their residents. The degree in which they do so varies, but the money does not simply get pocketed. Qualifying residents is probably the biggest part of the rental process that Fair Housing applies to, so the vast majority of landlords are very careful to treat everyone the same, have written rental criteria and process every resident the same way.
Again, please don't give people the wrong idea based on your bad experiences. You've acknowledged you've had some bad landlords, but trust the rest of us with multitudes of experience in the industry that that is not how the majority of landlords operate.
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