Quick Tips

1. Ask the prospective tenant to provide rent receipts for the last three months of his current address.
   

• Did the applicant pay on time?
  
• Is the address on the receipt consistent with the current address on the application?
  
• Is the name on the receipt consistent with the name of the applicant?
  

2. If possible, look at the license plate on the applicant's car.
   

• Is it from the same state indicated on the application?
  
• Is it the same plate number, make, and model car indicated on the application?
  

3. Check the first three numbers of the social security number provided by the applicant.
   

• When comparing it to the social security chart provided, it is consistent with the address history on the application and screening report?

4. Is the social security number on the application consistent with
   

• the tenant screening report?
  
• a pay check stub?
  
• a W-2 form or tax return?
  
• social security card

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