How to Confirm the Person I’m Searching For
Understand how to verify you are searching for the right person or identity
Weiting Bollu
Last Update hace 5 días
Who this document is for:
Anyone conducting a Tenant Screening through Openroom's Public Record Search engine who wants/needs reassurance this is who they are searching for
How do you make a search within Openroom?
At the very basic level, Openroom will request you for the a first name and a last name when you conduct a search.
Optional fields include a Date of Birth and/or a Past/Current Address that you know of.
Learn more on How to conduct a search.
Openroom will first attempt to search through our database with all of the elements you've shared with us. When there is a name and one other attribute match, you'll be shown a "Hard Match".
However, a result might be shown as "Soft Match". In these cases, you may want to get further clarifications on if this is the right identity. While there is no 100% guarantee, there is a way find more reassurance.
Note:
Sometimes, you will be prompted when the system needs you to specify at least one more parameter beyond the first name and last name. This can occur when we need to clarify who you are trying to search for.
How can you further verify?
A recommended way is to pull your own Consumer Credit Report on the individual you are searching for.
This will give you a history of past addresses that the individual may have resided at.
Afterwards, you see if there are any past addresses that matches the public records Openroom has in the results of your search.
Is there a match?
If yes, it's a very high potential it's the same identity you're searching for.
If no, proceed with some caution.
How do I pull an Equifax and/or TransUnion Consumer Credit Report for my applicant?
We are partnered with SingleKey.com - an organizations that allow you to pull an Equifax or TransUnion Credit Report. It does cost ~$25 to$40 CAD.
We advise that you at least pull an Equifax credit history because it might have further rental history data that companies such as Openroom has sent into their system via our Rental Debt Ledger or Rent Rewards Program.
Learn more on How to pull a report through SingleKey.
Note: You need to get an Applicant/Tenant's consent before you can pull a Consumer Credit Report on them.
Alternatively, you can try to get them to pull their own credit reports for free.
Learn more yourself, and/or share these How To pages with your applicant:
Caution!
This is not a perfect approach.
In rare instances, there might be a past address whereby the consumer never reported into the credit bureau (e.g. Equifax). If a tenant/consumer lived at a rental unit but never declared that rental unit in utility payments, phone bill payments, credit cards, loans, or otherwise, it will never show up on their credit report.