Real estate agents, investors, landlords, and property managers all benefit from the pace, efficiency, and accuracy of tenant screening services. Tenant screening services like Hire Image usually include a background check, income verification, previous rental history, employment verification, credit report, etc. There are a lot of tenant screening services to choose from. But not all of these services alike. So, it can be overwhelming to determine the best tenant screening services. Here are a few tenant screening services of 2019 that you can rely on:

Cozy.co

Tenants can apply directly to the apartments listed on this tenant screening services. The applicants need to forfeit for their background check and credit reports online. These reports are then revisited to you. This tenant service uses Checker for background checks like nationwide criminal records search, terrorist watch list search, etc. You do not have to pay for the screening reports. Rental applicants have to pay for the background check and credit reports. Overall time depends on how rapidly the applicant gives the landowner consent to observe their reports.

RentPrep

The tenant screening service provides a free rental application. You can receive a credit report depending on which package you have chosen to buy. The SmartMove package gives you a complete credit report by TransUnion. And the credit score you obtain is not the accurate score. This tenant screening service does not offer immediate reports. It will typically take about two hours after the order. Along with this, RentPrep charges extra money for the background check.

American Apartment Owners Association (AAOA)

The tenant screening service give a free leasing application as a PDF for AAOA members and visitors. Similar to Hire Image services, AAOA tenant screening service is available to both members as well as non-members as. However, AAOA members get some discount on screening services. You can get a full credit report depending on which package you buy.

Experian Connect

This tenant screening service does not offer rental application like other services. The applicants have to fill out an online form for the verification and to grant an entrance to privately analyze their credit report for up to 30 days. This tenant screening service does not offer background checks or deportation history reports. The pricing is free for real estate managers, landlords, and property managers.

CoreLogic MyRental

CoreLogic is one of the top tenant screening services but this company does not check the references. This tenant screening service offers a rental application that applicants can fill out online. MyRental will provide a tenant score instead of a credit score. The tenant screening service gathers data from bankruptcy record, payment history, and credit bureaus. There are different MyRental plans to choose from.

Wrapping Up

These are a few tenant screening services like Hire Image you can choose from. All the above services are upstanding some offer more features than others. So, it’s great to do some research to find the best tenant screening service, providers. This will help you earn a good amount, save some money and invest back it into your business. All the best!

Here is an excerpt of a success story submitted by one of DHCD's partner organizations, Housing Counseling Services:

The Spirit of W. Street Cooperative has been a community presence in the U Street corridor since 1989.  Located in an area that has seen massive gentrification and substantial construction in recent years, the cooperative still continues to bring affordable housing to all of its residents.  While many of the occupants have come and gone, there are several members of the cooperative who have been in the building since its inception.   One of those is the current Spirit of W Street board president, Lawrence Reid.   

He and the current board, as well as the entire building, have been integral recently in bringing the Spirit of W. Street up to higher standards of both security and appearance.   Housing Counseling Services has been working closely with the cooperative in these efforts.  With the assistance of a local non-for-profit organization, the hallways and the entranceway of the building were repainted.  There has also been a positive and palpable difference in the attitudes of the residents in the appearance of their home, and they have been working as a group to ensure that there is a continued effort to better the conditions in and around the building. Additionally, the cooperative has been working with the Metropolitan Police Department and their new management company to make efforts to improve security measures.