West Virginia Tenant Screening Background Checks

West Virginia Tenant Screening Background Checks helps you conduct comprehensive tenant screening on every applicant applying to rent one of your West Virginia rental properties. Conducting thorough West Virginia tenant screening background checks helps to eliminate unqualified applicants from consideration and allows the best-qualified applicants to shine through your list of rental applicants.

Landlords sometimes think that obtaining a credit report is all that is necessary to determine the best potential tenant but that is erroneous information. The credit report only provides information related to the applicant’s credit history, not rental history, criminal records or other crucial information. While the credit report reveals whether the applicant is financially responsible, it leaves the landlord without the crucial information needed to determine the best rental applicant.

West Virginia tenant screening background checks from the American Apartment Owners Association gives landlords the comprehensive results of thorough tenant screening information on every applicant. It is imperative for landlords of West Virginia rental properties to conduct the West Virginia tenant screening background checks on every applicant and not just the primary applicant. Primary applicants may insist on completing all the forms to hide the identity, eviction or criminal history of other adults, such as an adult child, another relative, significant other or unrelated adult with intent of living at the property. When your comprehensive West Virginia tenant screening background checks includes the other adults, you can possibly save yourself the potential headaches and expensive costs related to evicting them later.

The Eviction History is crucial to include when conducting all your West Virginia tenant screening background checks. Applicants may assume that you only conduct a basic credit check and will not learn about their eviction history. Some tenants go from one rental property to another, failing to pay rent on time. Quickly eliminate these applicants when you include the Eviction History in all your West Virginia tenant screening background checks.

The Criminal History reports include much more than just the local information you may obtain by conducting a local criminal history search. Including your choice of statewide or nationwide criminal records searches gives you the comprehensive information you need right when you need it. Including searches for more serious crimes such as Terrorist or Sex Offender convictions or pending charges allows you to weed out these felon applicants. You also potentially protect the safety of other tenants as well as your reputation as a landlord who rents to the best-qualified applicants when you conduct the comprehensive nationwide West Virginia tenant screening background checks.

Including the Previous Address Tenant History reveals whether your applicant gave you truthful information regarding previous addresses. Discover whether the applicant failed to disclose previous addresses, which usually raises red flags during the application process. West Virginia tenant screening background checks gives you the information you need to determine whether the social security number given by the applicant matches the name of your applicant. It allows you to make sure the social security number does not belong to a deceased person or if the social security number is just a fictitious number made up by the applicant.

Trust the American Apartment Owners Association to provide your choice of West Virginia Tenant Screening Background Checks Packages that best suits your needs as a landlord of West Virginia rental properties. Feel confident that you conducted the most thorough tenant screening when you put your trust in AAOA, the go-to source for comprehensive West Virginia tenant screening background checks.

For more information, visit:
West Virginia Landlord Tenant Laws
West Virginia Landlord Forms

The American Apartment Owners Association provides tenant screening background checks nationwide. Looking for a tenant screening report in a state other than West Virginia? Visit our tenant background checks page to learn more.