As a landlord, can I run a credit report on an evicted tenant who owes me money?
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If you are a professional landlord then you have an ironclad lease agreement that allows you to periodically run credit checks on your tenants and former tenants that still owe you money. This lease agreement would be signed by the deadbeat and would give you permission to pull the report.
Contrary to what some of the others above me said, a great deal of information can be obtained from a credit report and it is a good first step in hunting someone down. This is how all professional collection agencies do it.
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Not without permission
What good would that do you? You already know they owe you money. A credit report must be authorized by the person -- so the answer is no on two counts.
I don't think so. You should have run the credit report BEFORE renting to them. I hardly see what benefit you could derive from running it now.
**EDIT** If this person just moved in with your current tenant and is not listed on the lease, then your current tenant is responsible for damages.
not with in the law.
What do you think the credit report will tell you that would help?
What you really need is a private investigator to locate bank accounts and assets, that would be of much more use than the credit report. What kind of information did you get on the rental application? Checking or savings account numbers? Are you trying to collect, or just locate them?
No, it is not. Credit reports are confidential; you are required to have the signature of the tenant to legally run a report. Do yourself a favor, and keep it legal.
Only if you have a signed credit application by this tenant. It is illegal for you to run credit on a person without their consent.
If someone else moved in and the original tenant moved out is it in the agreement that this can happen. Yes you need their permission and yes they can stay if they pay the rent otherwise. Talk to them and find out what's going on before you take action. Not being happy about it won't help you collect, work directly with them and talk to them.
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