As part of our service to Landlord's, we do have a duty of care to ensure all potential tenants are referenced. From a Landlord's point of view a Letting Agent is only as good as the last tenant they found. Its therefore essential that we have taken every reasonable step to ensure all tenants that we put forward to Landlords are going to be good tenants.
We use a company called Rent Shield, who offer a specialist referencing service for Landlord's and Letting Agents.
Rent Shield will look to take references from previous Landlord's and current employers as well as doing a credit search to ascertain if there has been any adverse credit history or missed payments on any financial contracts that you may have.
Another key element of their service is accessing affordability of the rent in conjunction of any other financial liabilities that you may have.
If you have any questions regarding credit referencing, then please feel free to email us at lettings@lettings-direct.com
If you are worried about your credit file, you can access this from "Experian" who are a credit agency and hold credit files for the use of many financial organisations and referencing agents. To find out more information about credit reports, please click here or to check your own credit file with Experian:
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