By: RentAttorney

RentAttorney — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:28:40 +0000

You could try showing a letter from your previous landlord, but most likely the apartment complex you want to rent fro will not change their decision. Regardless of what you say the situation was or is, a record showing “Aggrevated Battery on a police office” is one of the worst charges you can have. You should consider hiring a criminal attorney to see if they can get the record expunged. However, even when the record is expunged it may show up on other landlord / tenant screening systems and databases. As for the eviction, typically that will only be attached to a credit report after a judgement has been made. So, unfortunetly due to some poor choices you now have to deal with the consequences. Your best bet, is to find another rental. No matter what you do or so, you will not convince the manager to rent to you– they probably have other tenants with clean history that want to rent the unit. Why would they turn someone down with a clean record? It doesn’t make sense, you are a bigger risk to them.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:52:20 +0000

The advice I can give you is to be upfront about your history. When I process rental applications that claim to have a clean history, but when we pull a background report we find that there are a few items that were never reported on the application- we automatically decline them. On the other hand, when an applicant explains the situation to us before hand and is completely honest, we give them some grace. At the property I work at, we can’t and won’t rent to convicted felons, but we do occasionally make exceptions for evictions. Be up front and honest about your history, that is the best policy.

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