Application Fee - Landlord Forum thread

Application Fee by Anonymous on November 4, 2009 @15:48

If an LL has two adults, as perspective tenants applying for your rental, not married, a Man, a Woman who both want to be on the Lease, should a LL ask for an application fee from both to do a background/credit check for both people(for both names)?

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Re: Application Fee by OK-LL on November 4, 2009 @16:01	[ Reply ]
If you have two persons to check, whether married or not, then yes, it is reasonable to collect 2 application fees. Why would that be different if they were married? You still have to run 2 credit checks and 2 background checks.

Re: Application Fee by Anonymous on November 4, 2009 @16:12	[ Reply ]
Are you talking about an application fee or the cost of a credit check?

Re: Application Fee by Anonymous on November 4, 2009 @16:19	[ Reply ]
Hi, Yes I am talking about the cost of the credit/background check fees. Is this normally called another type of fee when perspective tenants are applying for the rental?

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Re: Application Fee by Anonymous on November 4, 2009 @17:19	[ Reply ]
2 seperate application fees. You will have to run 2 seperate background/credit checks for them.

Re: Application Fee by Anonymous on November 4, 2009 @20:28	[ Reply ]
Let me get this in perspective... The man prospect and the woman prospect are unrelated/ So they should each pay their own fee since you will need to run a credit check on each of them.