A false positive criminal report in your tenant background check can cost you a valuable prospect when his only crime is having the same name as someone who has a criminal record.
- While credit information relies on social security numbers as a virtually fool-proof identifier to distinguish one person from the next, criminal reports are not indexed by social security number.
- The only information that can distinguish a person on a criminal report is full legal name (See What's in a Name), a full and accurate date of birth, and accurate address information (See Previous Address Tenant History).
Without this information you may obtain a false positive report, and turn away an otherwise good prospect. Click here to read more.
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