Comments on: Don’t Botch Your Criminal Background Checks http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/ Landlords helping other landlords Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:16:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Employ or Exclude: An Employer s Guide to Finding Public Records http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/comment-page-1/#comment-22692 Employ or Exclude: An Employer s Guide to Finding Public Records Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:11:44 +0000 http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/#comment-22692 [...] Don’t Botch Your Criminal Background Checks | AAOA - American … [...] [...] Don’t Botch Your Criminal Background Checks | AAOA – American … [...]

]]> By: Online Background Checks http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/comment-page-1/#comment-22662 Online Background Checks Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:58:38 +0000 http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/#comment-22662 Thank you for writing this very informative article about the importance of background checks. Criminal records are now so accessible that there is no excuse for not having one with the people you do business with. A personal experience I had with background checks was when a friend of mine found a flyer on his car windshield for pressure washing. What he didn't know was that in Central Florida, flyers for that same pressure-washing service were a front for a burglar. Sadly, he and his wife were later burglarized. In retrospect, if the victims had simply gotten identification and run a simple criminal background check before hiring the young man in the t-shirt, they would have discovered he had a history of burglaries. It is probable that just asking for identification would have chased him off. Thank you for writing this very informative article about the importance of background checks. Criminal records are now so accessible that there is no excuse for not having one with the people you do business with.

A personal experience I had with background checks was when a friend of mine found a flyer on his car windshield for pressure washing. What he didn’t know was that in Central Florida, flyers for that same pressure-washing service were a front for a burglar. Sadly, he and his wife were later burglarized. In retrospect, if the victims had simply gotten identification and run a simple criminal background check before hiring the young man in the t-shirt, they would have discovered he had a history of burglaries. It is probable that just asking for identification would have chased him off.

]]> By: Heather http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/comment-page-1/#comment-22657 Heather Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:30:40 +0000 http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/#comment-22657 I just thought I would give you a little tid bit of information on the company we use for our credit checks. Their name is Western Reporting Inc. We get the following: Credit Search w/score, Person search - including aka's, Criminal Report, & Eviction Report, all for $13.00. If we request a report outside of UTAH it may be an additional charge but so far I haven't had additional charges for out of state requests. We have been with them for about 4 months and have been completely satisfied! - which is more than I can say for the last company we were with! If you would like their info it is: 1-800-466-1996. Pass it along! Thanks, Heather I just thought I would give you a little tid bit of information on the company we use for our credit checks. Their name is Western Reporting Inc. We get the following: Credit Search w/score, Person search – including aka’s, Criminal Report, & Eviction Report, all for $13.00. If we request a report outside of UTAH it may be an additional charge but so far I haven’t had additional charges for out of state requests. We have been with them for about 4 months and have been completely satisfied! – which is more than I can say for the last company we were with! If you would like their info it is: 1-800-466-1996.
Pass it along!

Thanks,
Heather

]]> By: Subhash Agrawal http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/comment-page-1/#comment-22647 Subhash Agrawal Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:26 +0000 http://www.american-apartment-owners-association.org/blog/2009/09/21/dont-botch-your-criminal-background-checks/#comment-22647 This article is good. My question is about the accuracy & comprehensiveness of the criminal check done through the reports generated by AAOA. You recommend in this article do path history first and then do criminal check. But in your reports, you have the option of doing both together. So how good is the information provided by the screening package? And how good is this info in MA? in TX? This article is good.

My question is about the accuracy & comprehensiveness of the criminal check done through the reports generated by AAOA.

You recommend in this article do path history first and then do criminal check.

But in your reports, you have the option of doing both together.

So how good is the information provided by the screening package?

And how good is this info in MA? in TX?

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