How far back does a typical background check go when applying to rent from a property management company?
The leasing application was nine pages long; I’m surprised they didn’t want a copy of my fishing license and a note from my mother. I guess what I need is a psychic, LOL…
I was just wondering if I don’t know there’s a standard five-year check?
Criminal is since you were 18, regardless. And otherwise, it may possibly go back as far as 10 years. The general timeframes I have come accross are; 3, 5, 7, and 10 years. Each PMC has their own policies and I would question them directly.
The background check goes all the way back to your 18th birthday.
The forms are a way of intimidating the scammer…the self who makes a living of moving from one place to another without paying….after a deposit and the first months rent the scammer will pay parts of monthly rent say a hundred this week and 200 in the next two weeks but never enough to pay the full amount, then when the landlord gets tired of bringing up the rear money and tries to get a judgement, the scammer doesn’t pay at all…..and the Judge gives him 90 days to go out….
The poor land lord is stuck with over 6 mos. rent due! and the scammer is out looking again for another victim….soon he buys a $300,000.00 home with the rent he didn’t pay in the last 10 years….you get the picture?
Tenant background checks go back as far as you have broadcast records, unless you have juvenile records that were sealed (as most are).
Tenant background checks often include a credit check. The Honest Credit Reporting Act requires that the landlord get your written permission to run a credit check on you. He usually has you sign a form with your application. If you paid an application fee or deposit, that may be used to pay for your background check.
You can perform a free background check.
Like many answers, it all depends on the details:
What information do you want?
How much work are you willing to do to get it?
How quick do you want it?
If you are willing to do some work yourself, you can perform a background check on someone for free.
Criminal Background Check:
Criminal records are kept by the Clerk of Courts in each courthouse. Each city, town, county, disorder, and the federal government have their own courthouses. We know there are 50 states, 3000 counties, and over 30,000 cities, towns, or townships in the USA. That is a lot of courthouses, and most of them do not share their information. But, it is all broadcast information, and you are allowed to review it.
If you know where the subject self has lived and traveled, then you know which courthouse records to check.
Do-it-Yourself Free Background check issues:
a)One problem is finding out your subject-persons time travel history. He may possibly have committed a crime anywhere he has ever been.
b)2nd problem is the amount of work you must do to check each courthouse in those locations.
c)3rd problem is that you may possibly miss vital records if you miss any of the locations that your subject-self has been to.
d)4th problem is cost. If the courthouse has digitized their records and published them on a website, then you can often review them for free. But if you must travel to the courthouse, that requires your time and travel costs. Finally, if you get copy of the record, some courthouses charge $1 per page. Wow! That can be pricey.
e)So a do-it-yourself background check may cost you a significant amount of money if you want to perform a complete background check.
Other Records:
You will probably want to check out some other records on you subject-self.
Do your want to know about:
Marriages and Divorces
Bankruptcies
Tax liens
Civil law suits
Professional licenses
Corporate ownership
Property ownership.
All of that information is broadcast, and you can review it. But, you have the same issues that you had with the Criminal Records. The information is not all in one place. You have to find out where it is, and you may have to travel to those locations.
Information Aggregators
On the internet, some companies specialize in collecting all of this broadcast information, putting it in their database, and making it unfilled for instant access. For example, Illinois Youth Soccer (http://www.iysa.org) has a Risk Management periodical that refers to http://backgroundsearch.com .
You can review some of this information for free and get the results immediately on the internet.
How to Perform a Do-It-Yourself Free Background Search & Check:
Step #1 – At an information aggregator, like BackgroundSearch.com , you can place in your subject-self’s name and find each city that he lived-in. That website provides this information for free. You can enter as many names as you like, as many times as you like. Now you know which courthouse records to review.
Step #2 – At the same website, you can find a list of the Criminal Record Offices of each city, county, and disorder in the USA, along with their website (as reported to the U.S. government.).
Step #3.- Go to the courthouse website, or to the courthouse (if they do not have a website), and review their broadcast records.
Step #4 – Back at BackgroundSearch.com, you can find the Record Offices for Essential Records (Marriage, Divorce, Births, Deaths). Repeat step #3 for Essential Records and any other type of records that you need.
Purchasing a Background Check:
If you want to get a complete report, instantly, you can hold a comprehensive background check from BackgroundSearch.com (or other information aggregators). Each company (without exception) will charge you something for a complete background check. The companies have to cover their costs to draw together all of the broadcast information, place it in a database, keep it up to date each day about all, and make it unfilled to you on the internet for instant access.
Sex Offenders:
The U.S. government does keep a list of all convicted sex offenders in one place. You can find it here: http://www.nsopr.gov/
Source(s):
Excellent luck with your background check.