Landlord here. (Small time, my house is a duplex so I only rent 1 unit). I've rented it to people moving to the area before, though. I do the video tour, and use cozy.co (now owned by apartments.com) to run the background check, upload a lease for tenants to sign digitally, and set up digital payments. I'm not saying what their doing is wrong, but just telling you how I do it. Always listen to your spidey sense.... Source: almost 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure cozy.co used to do that automatically, not sure if they still do now they are apartments.com. Source: about 2 years ago

I think I remember cozy.co offering tenants the ability to report payments to the credit agencies. Idk if it is still offered since apartments.com took them over. Source: about 2 years ago

Our job and 60-70% savings every year helped us to buy our primary home 6yr ago, then I got my realtor license to buy rentals or work as a part time realtor. I was not very successful as a part time realtor but used the license to buy our own rentals every year last 4+ years and saved $10-$15k commission towards down payment on each house. Also, I was able to rent and manage (all new properties and no maintenance... Source: over 2 years ago

Odd question but I used cozy.co for years to do my background checks and I like the service because the tenant paid for everything, I just sent a link to their email so there was 0 liability on my part. Cozy has been sold to apartments.com and has stopped providing this service. All other screening services I've found where the applicant pays for the screening HAS to come with a credit check and I dont want this... Source: over 2 years ago

There's also companies like Lexis that maintain substantial databases for corporate use under the guide of fraud protection and debt collection:. Source: 12 months ago

I apologize, wrong spelling. Here's the link: https://risk.lexisnexis.com/ Hope it works out. Source: over 1 year ago