http://sfappeal.com/2014/01/tenant-troubles-how-can-i-avoid-getting-screwed-by-landlords-pulling-application-fee-scams/ SF Appeal: San Francisco's Online Newspaper Sun, 06 May 2018 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.24 http://sfappeal.com/2014/01/tenant-troubles-how-can-i-avoid-getting-screwed-by-landlords-pulling-application-fee-scams/#comment-24854 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 04:49:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=63361#comment-24854 If a landlord accepts a printout of a credit report from you then they are stupid; those are trivially easy to doctor/fake.

]]> http://sfappeal.com/2014/01/tenant-troubles-how-can-i-avoid-getting-screwed-by-landlords-pulling-application-fee-scams/#comment-24840 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:59:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=63361#comment-24840 If landlord collects fee and just pockets it without doing background check, wouldn’t a person be able to take the landlord to small claims court? Seems to me that even without a specific law governing this, a judge would rule in favor of the potential tenant. ?

]]> http://sfappeal.com/2014/01/tenant-troubles-how-can-i-avoid-getting-screwed-by-landlords-pulling-application-fee-scams/#comment-24826 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:39:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=63361#comment-24826 What about requesting a copy of the credit check or background check be provided to you? If there is no hard copy then refund?

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