Screening and the decision

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Haven keeps the screening report, checks it against the policy you set, and keeps the record that shows you followed your own rules. Two things about it are law rather than preference, and both are built in.

Recording a report

Run the screening wherever you run it today, then type the result onto the application: credit score, the income figures, eviction and criminal findings, prior landlord verification, and the vendor's own recommendation if it gave one. This is a first-class path in Haven, not a workaround — a great many offices screen on a bureau's own site and always will.

Every field is bounded as it is stored. A credit score outside 300–850 is not stored at all rather than stored wrong, and free text is kept to a sensible length. The income-to-rent ratio is worked out by Haven from the figures rather than taken from the report.

What the check screen tells you

Haven shows each test passing or failing: a credit score of 620 or better, income at or above the multiple of the rent set in your screening policy, no eviction records, no criminal records, prior landlord verified. It is advisory and it is labeled advisory.

The decision is yours, never the vendor's. A screening company can report facts and may suggest an outcome; it cannot decide who lives in your building, and Haven stores its recommendation as advice rather than as an answer.

Adverse action

If you decline an applicant — or approve them with a condition — because of what a completed report said, federal law owes that applicant a notice. Haven works out when one is owed, marks the application, and writes the notice for you: it names the screening company, states plainly that the company did not make the decision, and sets out the applicant's right to a free copy of the report and to dispute what is in it.

Download it, send it the way you send things, then record that you sent it and how. Downloading the notice is not sending it, and Haven does not pretend otherwise — it is your record that the notice went out. The leasing report lists every notice still owed, from any date.