Understanding a potential tenant’s background history protects the property and the apartment community. Don’t be tricked by fast talkers and people trying to circumvent being properly vetted. Hire a third party tenant screening company to perform thorough tenant checks on all prospective renters. Credit and criminal history can be pulled quickly and turnaround times near instant help landlords and property managers get those good tenants in quick while also avoiding getting in bad tenants. To learn more about trick or treat tenants and why a good tenant can be hard to find read recent TenantScreeningUSA.com press release: http://tenantscreeningusa.com/tenant-screening-news/trick-or-treat-a-good-tenant-is-hard-to-find/
Is Background Screening of Tour Guides Unconstitutional?
October 17, 2012 By
Some say background screening can only serve to benefit tourists and offer a measure of protection. Tour guides in New Orleans say that performing criminal background checks on them is unconstitutional and violates their First Amendment Rights. Similar licensing arguments have been challenged in Philadelphia and Washington as well, stating that tour guides provide expressive activity similar to a parade. The city created these regulations on licensing to include that tour guides pass a history exam, drug test and criminal background check to protect tourists and the city. To learn more about tour guides and background screening and the debate over the regulations required for licensing and why using a third party background screening company helps read recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-10-11-Tour-Guides-and-Background-Screening.html
Returning to College and Tenant Screening
September 26, 2012 By
Summer is just about over and college students are going back to school. The demand for housing on college campuses far exceeds the supply. Add that to economic down turn and many families are taking rental property near college campuses as their homes as families leave their houses for a more affordable apartment. Pushing young college students to pitch in and rent out a house that can support say 5 college students. Landlords beware, even though these young adults don’t have the credit history and other information commonly used in tenant screening there are still other backgrounds check one should conduct such as SSN Validation, Address History Trace and Criminal History.
To learn more about why independent landlords should perform tenant checks on returning college students read recent TenantScreeningUSA.com press release: http://tenantscreeningusa.com/tenant-screening-news/back-to-the-grind-returning-to-college-and-tenant-screening/
Penn State Scandal Leads to New Criminal Background Check Policy
September 13, 2012 By
With all 50 US States required to maintain their own sex offender registries it only makes sense that academia, government and corporate America search these registries prior to hiring. Penn State University has recently updated their employment screening protocols to now include criminal background checks. After the sex abuse scandal and subsequent cover up the University is taking proactive measures to thwart the likelihood of another incident. The incorporation of professional background checks is a great course to take in a larger effort to mitigate risk and increase safety. Most professional third party background screening companies in the USA now include a national sex offender search with their criminal background checks.
To learn more about Penn States’ new criminal background check policy read recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-09-12-College-Football-Criminal-Background-Checks.html
Vacation Property Landlords Beware
August 22, 2012 By
If you own a vacation property that you rent out for short periods of time without doing any kind of background check on your renters you are making a mistake. Short term renters pose the same risks as long term renters and can damage property, ruin your nice vacation homes reputation and potentially damage the neighborhood. Tenant screening is very inexpensive now and most background checks can be performed instantly. There are no longer any legitimate reasons left not to run a tenant check on short term vacation renters. To learn more about tenant screening for vacation homes and on vacation read recent TenantScreeningUSA.com press release: http://tenantscreeningusa.com/tenant-screening-news/tenant-screening-vacation-homes-or-on-vacation/
Background Screening and how Risk Mitigation Affects Employers
August 22, 2012 By
Background screening with just background checks doesn’t quite meet risk mitigation levels unless a third party background screening company is utilized. Background screening especially for employment screening purposes should use a third party background screening company to truly reduce threats and increase safety. These professional background checking companies specialize in helping companies create safe and secure workplace environments and are current with laws and best practices concerning the background screening industry specifically when used for employment screening. For more information on this subject read recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-08-14-What-Is-Risk-Mitigation.html
Public Records
August 14, 2012 By
Anyone can go to a county court house or other place where court records are stored and lookup these public records themselves. However, it is time consuming and sometimes courts have fees for accessing certain public records. Nowadays it is much easier to lookup public records online through a third party background retrieval company like CriminalBackgroundRecords.com. For a small fee one can look up their own criminal history or search for other public records like eviction records. The site has added a new Public Records webpage to help browsers and users understand what a public record is and some of the rules that apply for using certain public records for employment screening and other uses. To learn more about Public Records and restrictions that apply for certain uses of such information visit the Public Records webpage found at: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/public-records.html
Property, People, Perception – Risk Mitigation in Tenant Screening
July 26, 2012 By
Risk mitigation for tenant screening must focus on property, people and perception. When conducting background screening on new tenants performing thorough background screening is essential in minimizing the potential of risk. A bad tenant can cost thousands of dollars and can scare off potentially good long term renters. They can even make good stable current tenants leave the apartment due to perception of a bad property. People, property and perception are what property owners, property managers and landlords want as positives regarding their apartment units and apartment complexes. Performing in depth tenant checks on potential tenants prior to leasing can help landlords and property managers avoid the negatives that bad tenants can cause a property. For more information on this subject read recent TenantScreeningUSA.com press release: http://tenantscreeningusa.com/uncategorized/its-all-about-risk-tenant-screening/
Background Screening – EEOC vs. Congress
July 25, 2012 By
Background screening remains a hot issue in the news today and in the government. The new EEOC guidelines were not taken well with Congress and they quickly took action to ensure the EEOC could not finance any type of enforcement of its new guidelines. It appears that the layout provided by the EEOC set out to reduce unethical, unfair, racism and other forms of discrimination would in fact cause discrimination and make it even more difficult for minorities like black men to get a job in the USA. The debate will continue, but one thing is sure, US companies have a right to protect themselves and their employees from preventable threats. For more on this subject read recent CriminalBackgroundRecords.com press release: http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/news/2012-07-18-Background-Screening-Always-In-The-News.html
My Criminal Background Check
June 27, 2012 By
My criminal background check is the primary search phrase used by Americans looking for background check companies online when seeking a self background check. A personal background check like “my criminal background check” is being used more and more for American job seekers. A self background check is in many times used as a sort of pre-interview background check to verify what if anything is on their criminal record. Even if a person knows they have no criminal history as they never went to court for any reason it is still wise to perform a self criminal background check to ensure that there are no mistakes or errors on ones criminal history. Just like with credit history there can be similar name matches or data entry errors that align a criminal record to the incorrect person thus creating a false criminal report that could be picked up by a potential employer possibly causing a person to get rejected for employment due to a mismatched criminal record. To learn more about My Criminal Background Check visit the My Criminal Background Check webpage found at:
http://www.criminalbackgroundrecords.com/my-criminal-background-check.html