Tenant screening for rental applications.
Tenant screening for lease decisions: housing-purpose credit, eviction records, and criminal as local housing law allows, through housing CRAs including RentPrep. Employment products and permissible purposes do not transfer.
Also called rental background check, tenant credit and eviction, landlord screening.
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How it runs on vID
Identity verified
Search runs
Report returned
What it covers
Housing-purpose credit, eviction history, and criminal as the jurisdiction allows- An identity-verified applicant so the lease and report attach to one person
FCRA still applies, and so do state and city housing rules — source-of-income, fair-chance housing, eviction-reporting limits. Housing specialists in the network run these, not employment CRAs.
What it covers
- Housing-purpose credit, eviction history, and criminal as the jurisdiction allows
- An identity-verified applicant so the lease and report attach to one person
What it doesn’t cover
Use employment-purpose products or permissible-purpose certifications- Override local housing ordinances on eviction records or screening
- Replace a walk-through or a lawful income review
Where the data comes from.
Housing CRAs (including RentPrep) and employment CRAs with a real tenant line
Eviction indexes, housing credit, criminal as housing law allows.
Why identity comes first.
Proxy tenants exist. An ID scan confirms the person at the door is the person on the lease; it is not a substitute for a lawful housing report.
How the network fulfills it.
Housing is a specialty. An employment criminal file is not a tenant product because both PDFs say criminal.
This is the wrong search if…
You are hiring employees
Wrong category. Go back to criminal and employment credit, where lawful.
Commonly ordered with.
- Identity verification
Bind the applicant before anyone runs housing credit.
- Sex-offender registry search
Some housing programs require it; local law still governs use.
- National criminal search
As housing ordinances allow, not as employment packages assume.
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Identity-verified, fulfilled through the partner network.
Who orders this
Frequently asked questions.
Housing decisions need housing reports.
Identity-verified applicant, housing CRA, local law.
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