As a innkeeper, can I run a credit report on an evicted tenant who owes me money? I have a judgement on a former renter. Is it legal

I have a judgement on a former renter. Is it legal for me to run a credit report?

What angelic would that do you? You already know they owe you money. A credit report must be authorized by the person -- so the answer is no on two counts.

Not without permission

not near in the law.

I don't think so. You should hold run the credit report BEFORE renting to them. I hardly see what benefit you could derive from running it now.

**EDIT** If this personality just moved in near your current tenant and is not listed on the lease, then your current tenant is responsible for damages.

No, it is not. Credit reports are confidential; you are required to have the signature of the tenant to legally run a report. Do yourself a favor, and hold on to it legal.

What do you regard as the credit report will tell you that would help?
What you really have need of is a private investigator to locate bank accounts and assets, that would be of much more use than the credit report. What kind of information did you find on the rental application? Checking or savings account numbers? Are you trying to collect, or basically locate them?

Answers:
If you are a professional manager then you have an ironclad lease agreement that allows you to periodically run credit checks on your tenant and former tenants that still owe you money. This lease agreement would be signed by the deadbeat and would give you authorization to pull the report.

Contrary to what some of the others above me said, a great deal of information can be obtain from a credit report and it is a good first step in hunting someone down. This is how adjectives professional collection agencies do it.

Good Luck

Only if you have a signed credit application by this tenant. It is against the law for you to run credit on a person without their consent.

If someone else moved surrounded by and the original tenant moved out is it in the agreement that this can come about. Yes you need their permission and yes they can stay if they money the rent otherwise. Talk to them and find out what's going on before you take bustle. Not being happy more or less it won't help you collect, work directly with them and communicate to them.