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As a landlord, it's important to ensure the safety of your tenants and neighborhood
residents. At PublicInfoGuide.com, we offer comprehensive landlord background checks
that provide safe, up-to-date, and accurate data.
When conducting any landlord background check, it's also important to be compliant
with Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) guidelines. That's why we encourage you
to become familiar with necessary regulations before performing online landlord background
checks. The information on this page provides additional details about basic steps you can
take to ensure fairness and compliance when reviewing landlord background checks on your
potential tenants.
To learn more about how to go about performing a landlord background check, please call
our toll-free number at (888) 637-5463 or
contact us today
for more information. If you have taken appropriate steps to ensure compliance, get started
today by using our search box below!
VIEW A SAMPLE LANDLORD BACKGROUND CHECK
Click on the link above to see what the type of data we may include in your landlord
background check. This sample report is for the State of California.
Landlord Background Check Compliance
Compliance is a key concern when conducting landlord background checks. It's important
to ensure that each potential tenant is fully informed and treated equally, and that if you
choose to run a landlord background report on one tenant, then you must also run similar
background check reports on other prospective tenants as well.
The Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) web site at www.hud.gov/offices/fheo/
will have complete details about how to ensure compliance. The information presented on
this page is meant to be a general guideline of relevant information and best practices to
consider when performing any landlord background check. Please note that we do not advocate
using any of our online reports available through PublicInfoGuide.com to perform a landlord
background check until you have taken appropriate steps to ensure complete compliance.
The following steps are often seen as best practices when performing any landlord
background check:
- Have a Written Policy:
Place an official policy in writing which informs all potential tenants that you may perform
a landlord background check.
- Receive Prior Permission:
Prior to conducting any series of landlord background checks, you must also obtain written
content from the subject.
- Check Every Tenant You Consider:
Every applicant must be treated the same; if you choose to run a landlord background check
on one tenant, then you must also perform the exact same check on all other candidates.
- Inform Rejected Applicants:
If a potential tenant is denied residency based on the outcome of a landlord background
check, then you must disclose the reasons why in a formal written statement to them.
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Evaluating Landlord Background Check Results
Keep the following things in mind when reviewing any landlord background check and
evaluating a tenant for candidacy:
- Likelihood of Offense:
Be sure to give the subject the opportunity to explain to you arrests for infractions,
misdemeanors, or felonies. It is possible that they may actually have been found not guilty
of any crime, or that there were other extenuating circumstances that deserve further
clarification.
- Relevance & Nature of the Offense:
Evaluate the relevance and nature of any offense as it pertains to the subject's ability to be
a productive tenant. Driving record issues, for example, may not necessarily have any bearing
on their ability to care responsibly for apartment property or pay rent on time.
- Passage of Time:
Also consider the amount of time that has passed since the alleged offense occurred.
In some cases, the subject may even have a clean record, even though data of long-past
offenses was returned in the landlord background check.
A landlord background check from PublicInfoGuide.com includes the following information:
- Recently Reported Addresses
- Previous Addresses
- Shared Address Relatives
- Bankruptcies, Judgments, and Liens
- Businesses of Interest
- Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Filings
- Watercraft Registrations
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Registration (aircraft)
- Criminal Record Information (Available Only with State or National Reports)
Please note that our standard background reports do not include criminal records. To
add information about infractions, misdemeanors, or felonies to your landlord background
check, you will need to select either a state or a national background report.
We obtain criminal data from electronic databases provided by Departments of
Corrections (DOC), the Administration Offices of the Courts (AOC), State Sex Offender
Registries, and Departments of Public Safety (DPS). Please note that we reference electronic
databases only, and not additional court records data that may be stored in other forms such
as paper files or a microfiche. To learn more about our sources of information, we encourage
you to view our state landlord
background check page, where you can find a detailed list of sources we use for each
individual state.
Featuring access to the largest criminal records database in the United States,
PublicInfoGuide.com provides direct links into state information gateways. This ensures
that we not only provide the most comprehensive source of information for your landlord
background check, but it's also the most up-to-date as well, unlike other background
investigation companies whose information can be many months or more out of date.
More About PublicInfoGuide.com
PublicInfoGuide.com is dedicated to being your guide to publicly available information -
both information you may need to know about others, as well as information that others
could find out about you. We not only offer pre-employment and landlord background check
capabilities, but our unique
My Public Record report,
which can inform you of publicly available information that others could use to make decisions
about you.
Our services also include instant online
people locator reports, as well as
professional search
services. To learn more, please explore the links on this page today.
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