How Back Can Apartments Go For Criminal Background Check Texas

04-eighteen-2011, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by pnello View Post

I ran into an interesting situation, I practical to rent an apt , I have a high credit score and expert rental history. I did get arrested in 1992 on a misdomeaner not drug charge which ajudication was with held. It took them forever to approve my rental awarding because of this in my past? How far back do these apt complexes go? How many years ? This is crazy !

We had a Prop Management Co go back 17 years and refused to hire to usa on a traffic ticket issue...it was a very large app fee...adept luncheon coin for the function. That was the last time we ever paid any awarding fee...to anyone.
Koale

04-19-2011, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted past Koale View Post

We had a Prop Direction Co go back 17 years and refused to rent to u.s. on a traffic ticket issue...it was a very large app fee...adept dejeuner coin for the office. That was the concluding time we e'er paid any application fee...to anyone.
Koale

Yes, and that is why I don't charge an application fee unless I am 90% sure the prospect will be approved, and only if I'm going to run a credit study. I prefer they get their own for gratuitous online.

Too many flat complexes make their coffee coin from application fees.

Oh, and for the OP - they can expect back forever if they want. There is no regulation.

04-nineteen-2011, 04:09 PM

Nosotros charge every applicant and never had an issue. We are very honest what our criteria are and too inform them that if something is different then what they stated to u.s. upfront it can be cause for denial, or a higher security eolith....depending on what it is.

We did deny a few....all for lying about drug convictions...non simply i, multiple!

08-23-2011, 09:32 PM

Actually, it depends on the state you reside in. Texas, for example, has made it a law that background checks can only get dorsum up to 10 years. There'south a seven or x yr option for employers, landlords, credit companies, etc. to check which selection they want in the state background check. However, equally always at that place is an exception to the rule. A registered sex offender's background will come upwards for the duration of fourth dimension they have to annals and mayhap lifetime (There is a loophole besides for sex activity offenders in some cases regarding this, I'll explain later). A lot of states follow this guideline, but as e'er cheque your local land laws. Continue in heed, if you have convictions in other states & a nation-wide search is required then the laws of the state conducting the search utilise, not the laws of the state the conviction is in.

I find it funny that people assume they can legally go back equally far every bit they desire, specially when anything you need to know tin can be constitute online. Just one last affair to take note of, in most states information technology is illegal for a potential employer, landlord, credit visitor, etc. to conduct a background check for employ of denying employment, leasing a residence, approving credit, etc. without a signed document from the applicant that specifically states it will be used for this purpose. And it doesn't matter if a person checked yes on an application for whatsoever of the higher up, the seperate form has to be there to do it.

So those of you who think "I'll hire to who I desire", beware . . . if y'all don't have the right documentation that makes it legal you could exist facing legal ramifications yourself if yous have someone similar me, who is an ex-felon & very aware of the law when it comes to this, that you lot deny my awarding based on my background.

In closing, as for the loophole for registered sex offenders, it varies from state of affairs to situation (i.e. from applying for employment to applying to lease a residence to applying for credit).
i) In employment situations if your conviction date is over 10 years old then the company is not legally immune to deny you lot employment, despite the fact that your groundwork volition nonetheless come up later the fact & mayhap for the rest of your life.
2) In leasing it'due south a bit trickier. If it's an individual owned house so the same rules apply as for employment, unless information technology's part of a home-owners association & at that place are specific rules in place with the homeowners association that prevent leasing to ex-felons of all or specific types. But you lot also need to check specific city/county ordinances that can forbid yous from living there as well. If it's an flat type circuitous then they can discriminate based on the rubber of their other occupants, because although it's an individual apartment all residents live in the same building/dwelling environment.
3) But at that place'south some other loophole to houses & apartments (or lofts to be more exact). At present the homeowners association & urban center/canton ordinance rule usually applies no matter what, just under any other circumstance if you are purchasing the business firm or loft (as many lofts are individually for auction) then the rules practise not use, as no 1 tin tell you wwhat you tin or cannot buy. And for the virtually part, if yous own information technology you can live in it and there's nothing anyone can practise nearly it, except movement theirselves somewhere else if they don't like it.
four) Every bit for credit, almost don't even care about your criminal background, they're only concerned primarily with credit related issues that come. Then no existent worries in that location.