Keeping Sex Offenders out of your Rental Unit
Is a sex offender living in one of your units? How do you know? You may be checking your tenants credit score and possible eviction history, but you should consider conducting criminal background checks as well. By ordering even an Instant Nationwide Criminal Database search you can verify whether your prospective tenant is a registered [...]
Corra Group inteviewd by Canalplus about Background Checks
Corra Group founders were recently interviewed by French News Cable channel CanalPlus, regarding background checks in the Film and Television industry, specifically about Ryan Jenkins and running background checks on Reality Television industry contestants. The interview is overdubbed in French, but you can hear what’s going on underneath.
More communities discuss tenant screening
Communities across the United States are starting to discuss the benefits of tenant screening, including how to conduct a tenant screening and how to follow the applicable state, local and federal laws. Recently, Brainerd MN held a town hall meeting about tenant screening and this week they are getting to together to discuss it. The [...]
The Importance of Tenant Screening
More communities are providing forums to help landlords and property owners understand their rights and help them engage effectively with their tenants. Champlin Minnesota is the newest community to encourage this behavior, which a forum that occurred on May 14th, the second annual landlord forum. In addition to discussing low interest loans for property repair, [...]
More local governments encouraging tenant screening
As the recession moves from Wall Street to Main Street, local cities are forced to deal with the affects, with shrinking tax revenue. We were all hopefull during the housing boom that blighted parts of town would be regentrified, and the blight would be replaced by a white picket fence and an interest only mortage. Backsliding into chaos [...]
Chicago Sheriff to screen all 7000 employees
Public Relations is hard enough for landlords and property owners once a bad tenant moves in. But recently with the background check problem in Los Angeles, the Cook County Sheriff in Chicago has announced they will be screening all 7000 sworn and civilian employees of the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. It will be interesting how [...]
Apartment Owner responds to complaints about tenants
the TimesDaily.com had an article from Sheffield, Alabama today about an apartment complex owner responding to complaints about his tenants alleged drug use, shots being fired and other incidents that occurred at his complex, the Colbert Square Apartments, over the past nine years. The owner was forced to appear before the city council to address the [...]
More Tenant Screening in Little Canada
The city of Little Canada, Minnesota is the latest in American Cities looking to mandate tenant screening for all apartment owners in their municipal area. City Leaders are hoping the stricter tenant screening requirements will reduce the number of police related incidents and increase safety within the city limits, where half the residents live in [...]
More landlord tips including tenant screening
Increasingly, property managers and landlords are including tenant screening as a sound business step in their overall property management business. In these tough economic times, their have been a lot of tips for landlords, and they all seem to include some form of tenant screening. The most recent is from National Association of Independent Landlords, which encourages [...]
Shooting at Property exposes flawed tenant screening practice
The Las-Cruces Sun News had an interesting article about a shooting death of a man at a trailer park, who was previously unknown to be a tenant there. “We did a full background check,” she said. “He had just gotten out of prison. That’s probably why (his girlfriend) kept it under wraps, because otherwise we [...]
