Perform a tenant reference

You will likely want to perform some form of tenant credit check before engaging with a tenant to draw up a tenancy agreement, to be pre-warned of any potential financial history of defaulting on payments. Depending on the result of that reference, which is conducted by third party credit-check agencies, you may or may not wish to work with that tenant.

We provide an integration with Advanced Rent, one of the UK's leading tenant-referencing agencies. 

STEP-BY-STEP

1. If you do not have tenant referencing enabled, you will see a link to enable these services in the left-hand sidebar.
   
   
   
   
2. To begin using Advanced Rent's service you first need to activate the Advanced Rent add-on.
3. On any tenant overview, you will now see a Tenant References section in the left-hand sidebar. 
   
   
   
   
4. Click Request a Reference. 
5. You will now need to provide full details of the tenant and tenancy.
6. Choose a reference provider (at present Advanced Rent is the only integration). 
   
   
   
   
7. Provide details of the tenant, the property in which the tenancy will be set up, and the tenancy dates.
   
   
   
   
8. Provide as much additional information on the tenant which will help the reference agency identify them and their financial history.
   
   
   
   
9. You can additionally provide guarantor information.
   
   
   
   
10. Click Save to submit the reference.
11. The reference details will show on the tenant overview screen, including the reference ID, the date is was requested, and its current status.
12. When the reference completes, the result will be shown on that tenant overview screen.