#rental-fraud

#rental-fraud

Fraudulent applications have become an increasingly common form of theft that starts when a tenant who generally lacks the means or intention of paying rent gets into a lease and then uses eviction protections to take a free ride that can last for months. Beside the lost rent for however many months a bad tenant can game the system, landlords eventually bear the legal and administrative costs of an eviction, which averages $7,685, according to a survey by Snappt, an Ojai-based provider of fraud-prevention software.