The new standard in resident screening

Resident screening is offered by many, but most providers rely on rudimentary rules backed by data sourced by others, which produces either inaccurate results or, worse, an incorrect assessment that affects both your risk and bad debt. 

 PredictScreen is here to make background screening smart.  We’re disrupting the resident screening industry by delivering reports that are highly accurate and highly predictive.  We do this by sourcing much of our own court record data, and our qualification assessments are backed by an advanced machine learning model. 

Self-Managed Data

Most screening companies are just data resellers; they don’t source or manage any of their own court data, which means they have no way to control the quality of the data they buy, and no way to quality assure the data.  Most court records lack definitive identifiers like a social security number and may contain records that do NOT belong to the applicant being screened or miss records that DO involve the applicant - which can produce inaccurate reports and assessments - putting your valuable assets at risk.

PredictScreen sources its own court data in primary markets.  By sourcing and managing our own data, we not only control the quality of that data, but have the ability to quality assure it.

Quality Assurance

Computers are great, but they can only assess records that are confirmed to involve your applicant and, without definitive identifiers or some kind of easily identifiable multi-point match, many screening companies or data sellers simply will not report a record – even when a record may in fact involve your applicant.

To solve this problem, PredictScreen is the only company that incorporates human review into our reporting processes.  Our human reviewers allow us to dig deeper into records, which allows us to not only report records that other companies would miss, but to obtain more accurate court case information – like missing or outdated case disposition information.  This is how we back our claim that our reports are the most accurate in the industry.

Truly Advanced Assessments

Accurate report data is just the start.  PredictScreen is designed to help you accurately determine which applicants to avoid and which ones are worth the risk based on your occupancy and risk needs.

To do this accurately requires an advanced machine learning model that actually learns from experience.  We do this in part by allowing you to conveniently report to us which residents perform well and which applicants end up defaulting.  Our machine learning model then correlates behavior to risk – which is how our model is so predictive. 

We also allow you to customize scoring and assessments to accommodate property or market needs – or to work around your existing tenant selection plan. 

Income Verified.  Fraud Stopped.

Fraud is running rampant.  In fact, more than 1 out of every 10 applicants is applying with fake or altered documents, and when these applicants make their way into your property, more than 50% contribute to avoidable bad debt.  Beyond fraud detection and prevention, the process of verifying income can be tedious for leasing staff – and prone to error.  More than 25% of manual income calculations are done incorrectly – which can result in inaccurate qualification determinations.

PredictScreen offers access to the most advanced document fraud detection service.  But fraud detection is just the start.  We are the only system that can electronically read earnings statements.  Our software can quickly and accurately read important details like employer name, employee name, gross pay, net pay, and pay dates – which allows for not only accurate income calculations, but verification that the documents belong to your applicant, are current, consecutive and satisfy your lookback requirement.

The Most Advanced

Online Application

We also deliver a revolutionary online rental application – one that can actually help ensure that information is completed accurately by your applicants.  For example, if the applicant claims to earn $5,000 per month but we calculate their income as $4756.35, the applicant is automatically warned about the discrepancy – allowing the applicant the opportunity to clarify their reported income.