Technology How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment The vast tenant screening industry is subject to less regulation than credit scoring agencies, even though experts ...

Angelita White and her husband got an unexpected surprise when searching for a new apartment. The high school teacher and real estate agent racked up more than $200 in tenant screening fees, which ...

The family spent more than $200 in tenant screening fees when shopping for an apartment. “If I tried to give them my own credit report, … they would say no, we only accept it through this ...

Tenant screening reports can unfairly make it hard for many people to find decent housing. The problem can disproportionately affect Black and Latino communities.

Have You Had Trouble Renting an Apartment and Don’t Understand Why? It Might Be Your Tenant Screening Score. Did a tenant screening company, such as LeasingDesk, On-Site, Credco or RentGrow ...

That’s what the landlord for an apartment in St. Helens, Ore., saw when he ran a background check for Samantha Johnson, a prospective tenant, in 2018. But none of the charges were hers.

Two large private-equity-backed landlords discriminated against prospective tenants by relying on screening systems reporting inaccurate information about applicants’ previous evictions and ...

On May 20, I wrote a column about rental property owners using credit reporting agencies or tenant-screening services to check the credit rating and criminal history of rental applicants.

In one, a man named Terry Brown alleged he was rejected for an apartment in Virginia after a sex offender record was misattributed to him in a tenant screening report. The case was settled for $8. ...

Tenant screening is a report on a potential renter's financial, criminal and rental history. ... Apartment application fees in Marion County, according to Fair Housing Center research, ...