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Tenants & Screening

Screen an applicant properly

Credit, criminal and income in one run, with the applicant paying or you paying. The important part is not the report, it is what you are allowed to do with it.

3 steps About 4 minutes Landlord
Before you startAn applicant on file. You cannot screen somebody who has not applied, which is deliberate: consent has to come first.
1

Pick the person, not a blank form

Checks run against somebody already in your account, so the report attaches to the right applicant and stays with their file.

There is no way to run a check on a name typed from nowhere. That is the consent requirement, not a limitation.

Step 1: Pick the person, not a blank form
2

Choose the depth you actually need

The packages differ in what they include: criminal only, credit only, or the full income and credit picture.

More is not automatically better. Ask for what your decision genuinely turns on, because every extra category is another thing you now have to handle lawfully.

Step 2: Choose the depth you actually need
3

Decide who pays before you run it

The applicant can pay their own screening fee, or you can absorb it. The toggle sets which, and the price shown updates with the package.

Applicant-paid is normal and legal in most states, though several cap the fee and a few ban it outright. Rentari shows the cap for the property's state.

Worth knowingIf you decline somebody because of what a report said, that is an adverse action and FCRA requires a specific notice. Rentari drafts it, but you have to send it.
Step 3: Decide who pays before you run it
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