We do background checks on our employees and use a company called Intelius. The reports are relatively inexpensive (about $50) and are delivered more or less immediately upon ordering them on line. If you choice to conduct a background search you should first obtain a signed authorization form from the job applicant before proceeding.
It is interesting that when we mention the need for the background check during the interview we often get a kind of a "confessional" from a number of the candidates, some of whom tell us about incidents that never even show up after we actually obtain the report.
The link to Intelius is:
http://www.intelius.com/screening.ht...ec33101f969bc3
If you are a fee based management company like we are, or if you answer to a partnership and fail to conduct the search and later have a a problematic incident with a manager, you will be opening yourself to potential legal problems if the employee was shown to have a record of improper behavior, given your failure to exercise reasonable care.
Jeff Supnick
Supnick Real Estate Company
www.supnick.com
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