Quick Action Menu & Mobile Enhancements

Released on October 5th, 2018

This week’s updates include a new quick action menu, additional financial options when ending a lease and big changes for users of the mobile site.

Quick Action Menu

We’ve added a new button to NowRenting’s top navigation bar. It pops up a list of links to NowRenting’s most commonly-used functionality, giving you speedy access to the features you use most, from anywhere in the application.

NowRenting Quick Actions

See here for the complete list.

Add Charges when Ending a Lease

When ending a Lease, you can now add any charges, such as fees for damages or cleaning, that may need to be paid by the tenant. Any security deposit will be applied to these charges, as well as to outstanding rent or any other unpaid charges.

NowRenting End Lease Damage Fee

For more details on this feature, see here.

Mobile Enhancements

NowRenting’s visual layout has received a big update behind the scenes. Changes will be most noticeable to users who access nowrenting.com via a mobile device: Instead of a completely different (and limited) layout, you’ll be getting the same exact site as desktop users, specially upgraded to fit on your phone.

Recent Release Notes:

5/10/2019	Security and Encryption
5/3/2019	Invoice Preview and Pop-Up Notes
4/5/2019	No Fee Listings and New Mobile App Styles
3/22/2019	New Syndication Partners
3/15/2019	New Signup Promotion: 70% Off

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4 Reasons to Always Require a Tenant Background Check

Published by Matthew Talamini in

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on Tuesday, August 21st, 2018

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4 Reasons to Always Require a Tenant Background Check

Always Require a Tenant Background Check

If you’re a landlord, you may be wondering why you should go to the trouble of requiring a tenant background check. At NowRenting, we understand just how important it is, and that’s why we provide criminal, eviction and credit checks free to landlords, with the cost passed on to the applicant. Here are some reasons why:

A Tenant Background Check Deters Bad Applicants

Often, just requiring a formal background check is enough to send the message. Any prospective tenants who are apt to cause trouble will see right away that your property isn’t the right place for them. And even if they don’t, you’ll see problems in their report, and be able to make the right choice.

If an applicant doesn’t communicate with you anymore after they find out that a tenant background check is required, or if they aren’t willing to authorize the background check, that may be an important sign. It could indicate something in their past that they don’t want you to know about.

Double-Check Application Accuracy

Another function of a good background report is to verify that the information on an application is true. References from past landlords are good, but they don’t always tell the whole story. NowRenting uses TransUnion for criminal background checks, eviction reports and credit history: an objective third party and a world leader in risk assessment.

If a prospective tenant has lied on their application, there’s a good chance TransUnion’s thorough background report will enable you to sniff it out.

Avoid Legal Trouble

As a landlord, you know how important it is to comply with the law. Fair housing statutes can make it dangerous for you to choose applicants based on subjective criteria, or “go with your gut”. That could be misinterpreted by a rejected applicant! That’s why you should always require a tenant background check. It’s the same standard for every applicant. You want to be fair to applicants, and you want that to be obvious.

Find Long-Term Tenants

Avoiding vacancy is your number one goal as a landlord. If your property is sitting empty, the mortgage payments are coming out of your account. And how long can you let that go on? That’s why you want tenants who will stay with you for a long time. Eviction reports are your best tool for determining this in a fair and objective way. Has this person been evicted before? How many rentals have they lived in, and for how long? Find out the easy way, by using NowRenting’s Free Tenant Background Check tool.

Best Tenant Background Check Website

Published by Melissa Cocks in

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on Thursday, July 5th, 2018

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Best Tenant Background Check Website

The best tenant background check website isn’t one that will just give you a renter’s criminal history.

If relying on a criminal background check has been your modus operandi for screening tenants, it shouldn’t come as a surprise if you’ve struggled with problematic renters. The higher your standards are for choosing a tenant, the more likely it is that your unit is going to remain occupied—and by a fantastic tenant.

The best tenant background check website you could find is going to include eviction history, criminal record and credit reporting. Additionally, it’s going to help you pre-screen your tenant leads.

Does this sound too involved or expensive? Well, we have news for you..it’s not.

The best website for tenant background checks and screening is NowRenting.com. Not only is NowRenting a website for comprehensive background reports, it’s an app that helps you save time on everything from marketing a property to reminding tenants to pay their rent.

Essentially, it’s like having a digital rental assistant that makes your business operations more streamlined. Keep reading to learn why NowRenting is the best tenant background check website available.

Or, get a free tenant background check now.

Features of the Best Tenant Background Check Website

1. Pre-Screens Tenants for You

This is by far one of the most unique features that makes NowRenting the best tenant background check website.

NowRenting has a feature that revolutionizes the way you screen potential tenants. When you use NowRenting’s tool to post rental listings to multiple websites at once, all leads will be subjected to pre-screening questions. Best of all, these are customized by you!

Find out right off the bat if a tenant fits your criteria. For example, you can ask if a tenant has pets and make it a requirement that they tell you what kind of pets they have (e.g. large dog).

You can assign a score to that answer when you set up the screening questions. Continuing to use the pets example, if the answer “large dog” is a red flag for you, you can assign a substandard rating to that answer.

This way, when you receive a lead in your NowRenting dashboard, NowRenting will incorporate that into their match score. This makes it obvious to you at a glance that the lead is a less-than-ideal tenant.

Filtering, sorting and reviewing leads is a big time-saver, and NowRenting makes it easy.

2. Provides Free Eviction History, Criminal Background & Credit Reporting

Another feature that makes NowRenting.com the best tenant background check website is its partnership with TransUnion.

This makes it possible for NowRenting to deliver a comprehensive tenant background report. So not only do you learn about any criminal history of a potential tenant, you also get to scan their eviction history and view their credit score.

TransUnion is one of the most trusted services in the rental industry, so you can rest assured you’re getting the most accurate and complete background report possible.

What’s more, your tenant pays the fee for the background report. That’s right—you can pass the cost onto the tenant as part of their application fee, with just the click of a button.

Start your free tenant background check now!

3. Gives You the Option to Charge Leads an Additional Tenant Background Check Fee

Another feature that makes NowRenting the best tenant background check website is that if you want to up-charge a tenant for their background report, you can.

This will add an additional application fee to the total they will be charged, which is a nice option for landlords and property management pros. This way, if you need to cover additional administrative expenses, it’s possible.

4. Streamlines All Your Other Rental Business Tasks

When you use NowRenting to retrieve a full tenant background check, you also benefit from other features that make the entire leasing and tenant management process a breeze.

Here are some of the other tasks that landlords and rental professionals have streamlined thanks to NowRenting’s features:

Posting a listing to multiple websites at once
Monitoring the status of leads and tenant requests
Sending digital rental applications
Creating, sending, signing digital leases (with the ability save, re-use & edit the templates)
Online rent collection (auto-pay also available for tenants to enroll in)
Payments delivered to your bank account via ACH
Lease balance tracking
Accepting & managing maintenance requests online
Automating notifications to tenants (rent due, rent late, eviction in process, etc.)
Centralizing all communication (get a NowRenting inbox & phone number to keep your business life organized)
Managing your properties from a mobile app or via browser
Creating an easy custom website for all your properties
Integrating QuickBooks

Try the Best Tenant Background Check Website

Interested in raising the bar when it comes to tenant background checks?

It’s time to start finding better tenants to save yourself the time and hassle of dealing with evictions, flaky tenants and generally sub-par renters. Try the best tenant background check website for free.

Your free 7-day trial will allow you to experience the full NowRenting experience. This includes free tenant background checks, digital leases, online rental applications and more.

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