Tackling Applicant Fraud: Revolutionizing the Rental Apartment Qualification Process
The process of qualifying applicants for rental apartments has historically been accomplished by running a traditional background check involving database-driven searches of credit, eviction, and criminal information, along with manual verification of identity and income. Because there is no universal database that exists to help automate the process, income and identity verifications have been more difficult to determine, and applicant fraud has increased exponentially due to easy-to-access tools that allow applicants to buy or edit fabricated documents.