Criminal history is a key aspect of the tenant screening process and at Bemrose Consulting we pride ourselves in finding all charges a potential renter has on their record. We do this by searching every state the applicant has been and, if available, the counties they resided in as well.

More often than we would like, in the screening process, a divide starts to grow between us at Bemrose and our clients. Our responsibility to our clients is to provide as much information as possible about prospective tenants.

In the business of tenant screening not many things are more important than security. A lot of information is shared when someone applies for a property and keeping that information secure is a top priority.

We like to think of sex offenders as an issue that not many people have to deal with or think about on a daily basis, but unfortunately that is just not the case. The unfortunate truth is that sex offenders live amongst us in greater numbers than most of us would like to believe.

With so many employers choosing to utilize third-party verifiers or only verifying through HR, getting a performance reference on an applicant can be hard, bordering on impossible. This is where personal references come into play.

Google up “online background check” and you will find pages of results for sites boasting that they will save you time and money weeding out bad renters or job applicants using national searches. What these sites fail to tell you is what national searches they are using or how they get any of their information.

Applicants will lie; it’s just a thing they do. Whether big or small, there are bound to be a few on each application you accept. They lie about their criminal history, their residence history, their income and their credit. But why?