The boogeyman is real. I recently moved to a new place and the things I had to submit:
1. Driving license
2. Bank Account statements
3. Credit report (which you can provide or they can pull for a fee)
4. Employment letters / 3 recent paystubs
5. Tax documents for the last year
6. Reference of previous landlord
Ohh and on top of providing these, the lease is provisional and can be terminated based on the results of the background check they do for you. Yeah no, the boogeyman is real and is worse than the credit score boogeyman.
Is that a result of shadow credit score or was it because there was a nationwide moratorium on evictions for 18 months due to covid?
If I’m an apartment manager and I know I can’t evict anyone for an indefinite time, it makes sense to verify every piece of evidence I can that applicants will pay, because if they stop paying there’s nothing I can do and I’m losing money every month.
Ohh and on top of providing these, the lease is provisional and can be terminated based on the results of the background check they do for you. Yeah no, the boogeyman is real and is worse than the credit score boogeyman.