Eviction Reports

Eviction Reports

How to Prevent Property Damage, Fines, and Even Criminal Charges

Most experienced landlords have horror stories about tenants of years past. These property owners can tell you about renters that went months without paying, did thousands of dollars of damage to the rental property, or even let criminal activity take place on the premises. Often, these troublesome tenants will stubbornly stay on the property, despite their landlord’s pleas to leave.

In this case, most landlords will find themselves filing for eviction. The eviction process is often a way for a landlord to take back power over their own property. It gives destructive or delinquent tenants the final, legal push out of the door that they need after the landlord’s other attempts to encourage a move-out have proven fruitless.

While many of these landlords will acknowledge the headache that a bad tenancy brings, the conversation usually starts and ends with lost rent, legal fees to file evictions or judgments against the unruly renter, and costs to repair damaged property. However, lost income is not the only thing that a property owner has to worry about.

In mid June 2019, Martinsburg Police Department in West Virginia shut down their 47th drug house for the past three years. The owner of the rental property, Chris Baker, is being held accountable by the chief magistrate, who has ordered Baker to demonstrate that he has taken action to clean up the drug problem on the property. If Baker does not comply with this order, he could face criminal charges, even though he was not directly involved in the distribution of Schedule I controlled substances that was taking place on the rental property.

This scenario is more common than one may realize. Though laws vary by state, landlords usually have a duty to protect the neighborhood of the rental property from criminal acts carried out by both renters and non-renters on that property. Property owners can face consequences such as fines, confiscation of the property, and, in extreme cases, criminal charges.

One of the best ways for property owners to avoid these risks is by running an eviction record report on their prospective tenants. Statewide eviction reports reveal any evictions or judgments filed against that person within the past seven years, meaning landlords have the power to learn from the history of property owners that have come before them. Because evictions and judgments no longer appear on credit reports, eviction reports are important now more than ever to conscientious landlords.

AAA Credit Screening Services offers statewide eviction reports in all fifty U.S. states that search by the applicant’s name. Property owners screening a potential tenant may consider pairing their statewide eviction searches with a prior address check as part of their tenant screening process that can also include criminal records and credit reports. With these reports combined, landlords can rest easy knowing their tenant applicants are not purposefully concealing information about an undesirable rental history.

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