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Janet Adams
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| 04 Sep 2007 10:26:51 |
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We have a Tenant who has after 16 months been found to have a criminal record for Assault and ABH, driving offences and now
a Class A drugs related incident.We have served a Section 21 notice on these people before we were aware of the offences. How can Landlords find out this information before commencing a letting we are obviously not keen to go down this route again. These sorts of things do not show up on normal refencing, are we as Landlords allowed to ask for a CRB check or indeed are we allowed to ask if they have criminal records.
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Pebble.co.uk.ltd
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| 06 Sep 2007 09:24:20 |
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Hi Janet
Sorry to hear about your current situation. There are companies on the internet who specialise in this. They would require the signed consent of the applicant to do this. Obviously; this may the first hurdle/or warning to you, if they refused to give consent. These companies would also require a completed form (akin to a tenancy application form) and proofs of id, ie; passport, drivers, utility bills before they could do this. It normally takes around a week to do so.
I think your situation is the exception and not the norm. As it is your property you can insist that this does additional to your normal reference checks. At least this way, if you had a prospective refuse it would alert you straight away.
On landlords we deal with, we insist that we do an id verification on all applicants. This is obviously to combat an id fraud and to ensure that the applicants are UK nationals or has the necessary visa to work here. Especially after the terrorist incidents we need to ensure identity before we even proceed to then carry out reference checks. Once all references have been received, it would enable a landlord to take rental guarantee, which would cover non payment of rental, instruction possession proceedings.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Rex Mhach - for and on behalf of Pebble.co.uk.ltd
www.pebbleonline.net
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