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Applicant Screening

Know who is moving in. Before the lease is signed.

Identity and document verification inside the application your team already uses, built for the fraud that is now generated rather than forged by hand.
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Protect the property, and the NOI behind it.

A fraudulent application found at the desk is one that does not become a delinquency, a collection, or a turn.

  • Fewer delinquencies

    Applications that cannot support the rent are caught before signing.

  • Less downstream rework

    Fewer evictions, collections and re-lets that begin with a bad file.

  • Built for generated fraud

    Synthetic identities and edited statements, checked at the source.

  • One process, every property

    The same verification at every community, in one platform.

What a fraud prevention strategy looks like.

The operators who see the least application fraud do a few things consistently, and each one is routine here.

  • Verify at the application

    Identity and documents confirmed before screening runs, not after move-in.

  • Check the source

    Deposits from a connected account, documents examined for tampering.

  • Apply one standard

    The same criteria at every community, so decisions are comparable and defensible.

  • Keep people deciding

    Signals inform the leasing team. They do not replace it.

Reliable residents, identified sooner.

Identity, documents and ability to pay confirmed on the application itself, so your team approves the right people with less back-and-forth.

  1. Identity check

    The ID is checked as a document and matched to a live face, so a photo rarely passes.

  2. Document review

    Paystubs and statements examined for tampering, fonts, layers and metadata, before anyone reads the number.

  3. Review trail

    Who looked, what they saw, and when they signed off. Kept with the file.

  4. Your criteria

    Set once, applied the same way to every applicant at every community.

An applicant confirming their identity on their phone: a live selfie matched to their ID, with the ID and live check marked complete

Built around how your team already screens.

Two short steps for the applicant, inside the application they already started. Your provider, your criteria and your sign-off stay where they are.

  • The applicant is who they say

    The ID is read as a document and matched to a live face, not a photo of one.

  • Edits do not go unnoticed

    Paystubs and statements checked the way a forensic reviewer would, in seconds.

  • Every applicant, the same bar

    One review process, so an exception is handled the same way at every desk.

  • Faster onboarding

    Applicants confirm who they are in the flow they already started, so good renters move in with less back-and-forth.

FAQ

Short answers. Your account team has the long ones.

What is rental application fraud?

An applicant misrepresenting who they are or what they earn: a borrowed or fabricated identity, an edited paystub or bank statement, or a combination of real and invented details. Increasingly these are produced with AI tools rather than by hand.

How does identity verification work?

A government ID is checked for authenticity and compared with a live selfie taken during the application. Liveness signals reduce the chance that a photograph or a generated face is accepted in place of a person.

What do document checks look for?

Signs of tampering in paystubs and statements: fonts and layers that do not belong to the issuer, altered metadata, and figures that do not agree with each other or with the connected account.

Does this replace tenant screening?

No. Standalone tenant screening software runs credit and background checks. Verification sits alongside it, confirms the applicant and their documents are genuine, and informs the same leasing decision.

Who makes the leasing decision?

Your team, using your criteria. Verification provides signals and evidence, not decisions, and every decision is recorded with the application.

How is applicant data handled?

Collected with the applicant’s consent, encrypted in transit and at rest, and retained according to your policy.

Start with the applications you have.

Send us ten you approved last quarter. We will show you what verification would have surfaced.
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