topic Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history? in General Credit Topics

Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

improvent363 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:01:41 GMT

We all know we can get free credit score and report, but can you get FREE tenant rentanl history (similar to what is offered here: https://www.youcheckcredit.com/index.html' http://www.landlord2landlord.com/pricing.aspx).

Basically I am asking where can you get free background history?

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

fused — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:37:12 GMT

Moving to the General Credit Topics forum.

--fused, myfico moderator

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

improvent363 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:45:14 GMT

Any ONE? Any one?

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

Booner72 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:58:54 GMT

I think the only time rental stuff gets reported is if you get evicted or they have to go after you for not paying rent. It's not a standard practice for apartments, or houses, to do regular credit reporting on your monthly rent. I know this bc I am helping my brother with his credit. He has a 2500 collection from an apartment that he was evicted from. I found out on the BK forum that they can only sue him for this for one year. So technically he doesn't have to pay this and he won't get a judgment - he will just have bad credit for a long time, and other places he wants to rent to him will probably not because they will see the eviction and the related collection.

Can you please tell us specifically what your concern is so we can better answer your questions? In your other post you said "does it matter if apartment or house" - and I'm not sure what that means.

In all of my years of renting various houses and a few apartments along the way, my credit has always been checked - even if it was just a person renting their home out or a rental agency. I was always able to pay a bigger deposit and was approved to live where I wanted to live. Because I didn't have any evictions the landlord wasn't that concerned about my credit scores because I paid first/last/deposit. I would guess you will find housing you like if you are able to pay big enough deposits.

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

improvent363 — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:01:30 GMT

I am asking because the house I am currently living in right now is owned by my parents who have missed a lot of mortage payments. So because of this, will I get less chance of being approved for a rental application even if the house is not under my name and I do not have any missed/late payments on my CR and no other delinquencies.

I am just worried because I share the house with them and my CR does show that I live in this house. So, will the landlord find this out and discriminate against me because of this, even though it is not my fault that my parents missed a lot of mortage payments and they have bad credit?

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

Booner72 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:05:18 GMT

You have nothing to worry about. If it isn't your mortgage then nothing will be on your credit reports about your parents financial problems. There is no way that because you share the same address that their delinquent accounts will go on your credit.

Have you pulled your credit reports at all? Why don't you do that and see for yourself to get some peace of mind?

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

improvent363 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:38:08 GMT

I pulled my CR and do not see any mention of their mortage of any delinquencies.

I was worried because some places (ex: www.publicbackgroundchecks.com) can find the whole record just by searching for the address. And if the landlord uses that and sees the bad non-payment and missed payment record. So, will that not affect my chances of getting rejected because I share the same address?

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

haulingthescoreup — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:48:46 GMT

@improvent363 wrote:
I pulled my CR and do not see any mention of their mortage of any delinquencies.

I was worried because some places (ex: www.publicbackgroundchecks.com) can find the whole record just by searching for the address. And if the landlord uses that and sees the bad non-payment and missed payment record. So, will that not affect my chances of getting rejected because I share the same address?

It wasn't your debt, and you weren't a renter with a lease, from what you say. You have not been delinquent on anything.

FWIW, when I thought that I was going to move to an apartment, they pulled my Experian. No indication that they went for anything else. And again, even if they did, it wasn't your debt, and you havent been late or defaulted on anything. Or at any rate, not on anything related to tenancy or ownership of that property.

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:19:51 GMT

@Booner72 wrote:
I think the only time rental stuff gets reported is if you get evicted or they have to go after you for not paying rent. It's not a standard practice for apartments, or houses, to do regular credit reporting on your monthly rent.

Depends on the company. Experian gets rental data reported. For a short time at the beginning of this year, my lease showed up as installment loan on my Experian credit report, and the data came from the management company of the apartment complex where I live at the moment. Account age was from when I first moved in a few years back, the balance was the complete outstanding lease to the end of my contract, terms were given as 12 months. Some time later, the account vanished again.

Which means that Experian has the data. They just don't normally show it on your credit report.

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

GregB — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:47:04 GMT

IF you have a lease with a management company that has a contract with EX and they update. That is only likely with a good sized management company that wants to pay those fees.

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:41:22 GMT

@GregB wrote:
IF you have a lease with a management company that has a contract with EX and they update. That is only likely with a good sized management company that wants to pay those fees.

Which are basically all in this area. In my example, it was even the 4th management company within the reported time frame, and the report went back to the first one.

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 00:27:23 GMT

I am worried because when I moved out of the apartment I lived in while in school (pursuing my MBA), the landlord found a few things where some of my security deposit needed to be withheld.

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

iv — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:53:35 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Depends on the company. Experian gets rental data reported. For a short time at the beginning of this year, my lease showed up as installment loan on my Experian credit report, and the data came from the management company of the apartment complex where I live at the moment. Account age was from when I first moved in a few years back, the balance was the complete outstanding lease to the end of my contract, terms were given as 12 months. Some time later, the account vanished again.

Which means that Experian has the data. They just don't normally show it on your credit report.

Yup. http://www.experian.com/rentbureau/renter-credit.html

So does Transunion: https://www.mysmartmove.com/home.html

And Equifax: http://www.equifax.com/business/resident-and-tenant-screening

And a half-dozen others.

Of course, they'll only have whatever data your landlords/management companies choose to report to them...

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:20:53 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Booner72 wrote:
I think the only time rental stuff gets reported is if you get evicted or they have to go after you for not paying rent. It's not a standard practice for apartments, or houses, to do regular credit reporting on your monthly rent.
Depends on the company. Experian gets rental data reported. For a short time at the beginning of this year, my lease showed up as installment loan on my Experian credit report, and the data came from the management company of the apartment complex where I live at the moment. Account age was from when I first moved in a few years back, the balance was the complete outstanding lease to the end of my contract, terms were given as 12 months. Some time later, the account vanished again.

Which means that Experian has the data. They just don't normally show it on your credit report.

That is VERY interesting info.

did the fake installment loan bump your FICO?

Re: Anywhere to get free tenant rental history?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:25:51 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I am worried because when I moved out of the apartment I lived in while in school (pursuing my MBA), the landlord found a few things where some of my security deposit needed to be withheld.

As long as the security deposit covered the cost of repair, you have nothing to worry about as far as anything reporting on your credit report. That is the whole point of the security deposit.