The introduction of background checks represents one more step in our mission to democratize technology to make renting less painful for everyone said gino zahnd ceo and founder of cozy.
Cozy credit and background check.
You need more than just a credit score to understand an applicant s financial situation.
Cozy background checks include full searches of national and county criminal records past evictions sex offender lists and terrorist watch lists.
They ll be prompted to create a cozy account and securely enter their information to verify their identity.
Purchased together cozy credit reports and background checks cost applicants just 39 99 or 24 99 each.
When you request a credit report or background check we send an email request to your applicants.
You can require screening reports when you create a listing in cozy or you can request reports directly from individual applicants.
Easy to read credit reports include a breakdown of an applicant s total reported debt detailed payment history for credit accounts and employment and address history.
There s nothing for you to do right now but we ll let you know before your account moves.
Once verified they can run and pay for their own screening reports and share the results with you.