Phone app helps landlords to screen tenants - Mortgages, Money - The Independent

Phone app helps landlords to screen tenants - Mortgages, Money - The Independent

A new iPhone app has been launched aimed at helping buy-to-let landlords find out if their prospective tenants are on a blacklist for property damage or unpaid rent.


Lettings specialist Legal 4 Landlords has created the UK's first app for landlords and lettings agents to access up-to-date information on tenants. The app holds a tenant risk list, a nationwide database of more than 4,000 tenants that Legal 4 Landlords has ever dealt with.

By entering the prospective tenant's name and address, the Legal 4 Landlords app will inform landlords of any misdemeanors linked with the tenant.

Sim Sekhon, a director at Legal 4 Landlords, said: "We're approached on a daily basis by landlords wanting to do a quick background check on a prospective tenant. These checks can take time, so we thought it made perfect sense to develop an app which will do this in seconds.