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You can ask anything. Telling information is where the legal issues may lie. Telling you if the employee is responsible is probably illegal. I let a third party do the checks for me. It costs me $10 to do landlord and employer checks. You are better off relying on pay stubs and credit scores than calling around to employers. All you need to know from employer checks is amount the people make, which an employer will not tell you and length on the job. Do they have stable employment? Do they have a career or a job? My service calls past landlords, via the property records from the credit report. Calling past landlords is always worth the effort, but do not rely on the most recent landlord. When a tenant that I do not care for wants to leave, I generally give a decent reference. I let my service do those checks. Ask the previous landlords if they would re-rent, did they give the deposit back, did the tenants give proper notice, did they pay late. If a tenant had more than two addresses in five years, it’s a red flag. So, skip employer checks, and call past landlords. Landlords are worthwhile for you to check, especially previous to the current one, if you have to do it your self. Employers usually do not say anything that is worthwhile. Calling banks is even more fruitless than employers.
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