Tenant Vetting Service
A landlord should always check a tenants suitability before granting a tenancy. The tenant vetting service is designed to be an addition to normal reference taking practices (e.g. landlords and character references).
For both services, we only make a charge if we locate a tenant and the charge can be passed onto your tenant.
We had a member not long ago who requested a check to be carried out. At first, we were unable to locate the tenant because he had given a false postcode. However when we finally got the correct postcode and found the tenant he had over £29,000 in county court judgements against him!
There are two options available to landlords:-
Standard Tenant Vetting Service
This service is the most popular service which costs £4.95+VAT online. It is usually quite sufficient particularly if a tenant has resided at their current address for a year or more. When a check is carried out on a prospective tenant, only the current address of the prospective tenant is checked for ccj's etc.
Extended Tenant Vetting Service
This service costing £14.95+VAT is available online only and is the same as the standard vetting service but also it checks ALL known previous addresses for the one fee.
Click here to see a sample report
Where does the information in the Tenant Vetting Service reports come from?
- The Electoral Roll County Court Judgments (England and Wales)
- Scottish Decrees (Scotland)
- Credit Information shared among the UK's major financial institutions and retailers
- Council of Mortgage Lenders records on repossessions
- CIFAS (The UK's Fraud Prevention Service) provides information about applications for credit suspected to be fraudulent.
- GAIN (Gone Away Information Network) shares information on customers with outstanding debts who have moved home without providing a forwarding address.
- A search of the tenants registry, a list compiled by members of the Guild reporting on good and bad tenants.