Top 5 Tenant Screening Services
Before choosing a tenant to occupy your investment property, screening is crucial! You may not feel comfortable renting to someone with a criminal record, someone who has been evicted in the past, or someone with a super low credit-score. There are various ways to screen the individuals applying to rent your units, and we’ve compiled a list of some of the best websites for you that will help you screen your potential tenants.
- MyRental
Website: www.myrental.com
Services: Tenant screening solutions for landlords, real estate agents, and property managers so that they can identify qualified applicants.
Price: $24.99/mo includes: court data, additional address info, terrorist alert, multi-state criminal, multi-state sex offender
$37.99 includes: all of the above + credit report, renter pay option, TU rental score Rating: 3.47/5 (on SafeScore)
- Verifirst
Website: www.verifirst.com
Services: Identity verification, SSN trace, address history, county criminal court, credit history & credit summary, international watch list, national criminal database, sex offender search
Price: No monthly minimum, pay for what you need
Rating: 4.1/5 (10 reviews on TrustPilot) - RentSpree
Website: www.rentspree.com
Services: Rental application, credit reports, background checks, rental history
Price: $39.99
$49.99 all of the above + income estimate, automated reference requests, document uploads
Rating: 4.6/5 (1600 reviews on Google)
- RentPrep
Website: https://rentprep.com
Services: Full credit report and score, nationwide eviction report, judgements and liens, bankruptcies, nationwide criminal and sex offender search
Price: $21/mo
Rating: 4.7/5 (145 reviews)
- RentRedi
Website: https://rentredi.com
Services: credit report, tenant criminal report, tenant eviction report, credit-based resident score
Price: $29.95/mo (pay as you go)
Rating: 4.4/5 stars (on G2- 75 reviews)
While all of these websites have benefits, our favorite way of screening tenants is allowing Light House Realty to do it for you (although we might be biased). Not only will we screen all your tenants for you, but we’ll also find them for you and onboard them so you don’t have to. Seems like a win-win to us. If you need any help managing your investment properties or finding new ones, click the link below!
