Common Tenant Screening Documents
August 11th, 2010
There are tenant screening documents you would wish a client to prepare before starting a conversation with your would-be tenant. You can create your own rental application form. This can give the client an idea that you mean business and taking in tenants to your apartment is not a joke. It signals the client that you are accepting tenants of good character. To a mob, having him fill out the form can tell him that he’s not welcome in your place. To a harmless individual, it gives him a glimpse of how secure the place can become because each tenant provided some personal information to the landlord.
In your rental application form, you may ask for the following data:
- Full name. Get a photocopy of an ID as proof. Don’t accept a tenant and just know him by his nickname or first name.
- Hometown. By letting you know where he was born or where he grew up, you can have an idea of the lifestyle he might be accustomed to.
- Birth Date. Your approach to accepting tenants may be a little formal, but greeting them on their birthdays would allow you to develop long-term tenant-landlord relationships. Simple as it may seem, but it works.
- Profession or Job/ Work Address. It’s vital to know what your potential client does for a living. This can give you a small picture whether he has paying capacity or not.
- Assets, Properties, Credit Cards. These are essential especially when your rental is a bit more expensive depending on what you can offer to the client. Bigger fees mean bigger responsibilities. Therefore as a landlord you may ask for little information on their investments just to assure you’re secured once you take in your tenants. Just don’t demand on full disclosure of information.
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