Home / Owner Center / Tenant Screening
for owners
Who applies, what we look at, and who decides. The short version: Eclipse makes the approval decisions and applies the same published criteria to every applicant.
Every applicant goes through the same five steps.
We make the approval decisions, using one written standard applied to every applicant alike.
Income, credit history, criminal history and rental history, checked against written criteria. We do not look at social media, search the internet or call personal references. Objective facts can be defended, and that protects you from a fair housing claim.
Approved. Conditionally approved, with an increased deposit. Or denied, with a letter explaining why.
Owners sometimes ask to set their own screening rules or turn away a housing voucher. The answer is no, and here is why.
Most U.S. households have a pet. The American Pet Products Association counts 95 million of them. So we encourage owners to allow pets: it opens the home to far more renters, and that is how a rental earns the most.
Whether a home allows pets is the owner's call, and every listing says whether pets are considered or not allowed. In homes that consider pets, the tenant pays for pet screening, pet rent, a higher deposit and pet inspections.
An assistance animal is not a pet. No pet rent, pet deposit or pet fees apply.
The full application process, as applicants see it: How the application process works · Can I refuse housing vouchers or set my own screening rules? · All owner questions
Other parts of the job: Maintenance and repairs · Rent collection · Accounting and owner reports · Marketing and leasing
Tell us where your rental is. Chuck Kelley, our Broker/Owner, will look at it and walk you through how we would lease it. No obligation.
