TransUnion Introduces Rental History Database

DomainFatigue · Jun 18, 2006

One of the big three credit bureaus is going to start tracking/selling rental payment histories. Sorry if the link sucks...

http://home.businesswire.com/portal...ewsLang=en&beanID=1153550781&viewID=news_view

It hit the wires on 6/15... Interesting to note, it seems they bought out rentalscreening.com and tenantscreening.com in April 2006.

Just figured I'd share some potential with my fellow forumites.

I already own a few rental screening and history domains in various stages of development...

Dale Hubbard · Jun 18, 2006

Cool. I see rentalpaymentdatabase.com was taken today. Someone's sharp

DomainFatigue · Jun 18, 2006

:thumb: Hope the intel helps a few folks. Who knows which way this one is going...

Just a quick update: At first glance, some people may not appreciate the far reaching consequences of this. But if you consider that much of the information used in both the government and private sectors is actually collected initially by the three credit bureaus and then sold and resold, time and time again, through multiple levels, it is easy to see the potential here...

Thus, it's not just that one of the largest companies in the world is adding rental history information to it's credit reports (potentially millions of records). This information will splinter off and likely be resold through information brokers, etc., right down to PI's, law firms, landlords, etc. And the other credit bureaus will want to get in the game too.

Think of how large an industry employee background screening is. And how many people rent apartments and all the landlords out there both big and small...

Of course, I could be way off here.