It may not be Thanksgiving, but we want to thank you. CIC wouldn’t be what it is today without people like you! You’re our favorite people and we want to know, are we one of yours? To say thanks for supporting us, we’re getting ready to raffle off a $100 dollar gift card! CIC is
There is one thing the past few years have taught us: laws in our industry are always changing. It’s not just the federal courts constantly twisting this way and that passing tenant protections but states putting up rules about how high fences should be or how many years a criminal search can go back. Trying
What’s in this Article: From January through March, many applicants had an eviction record. As eviction moratoriums end, pro-tenant legislation could threaten data use. This quarter, criminal hits on background reports have dropped slightly. The dip could mean 2 things. CIC has released the data analysis regarding both eviction and criminal hits for the first
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has officially backed up the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) eviction moratorium. The CDC’s moratorium was recently extended through June 30th, making the entire thing last over a year long. With over nine million families having overdue rent, some rental property owners have been struggling to find ways to
What’s in this Article: CA Gov. Newsom signed SB 91 into law on January 29, 2021 Owners and Property Managers may receive up to 80% lost rent money from the time period between April 1, 2020 and March 31st, 2021 CRAs should not include negative debt allegedly tied to COVID-19 hardship; Including this debt on
Everyone looked forward to 2021 for the simple fact that at least 2020 and all it held would be over. For those in the rental housing industry, the most important thing thought to end with the year’s change was the eviction moratoriums. Most set to expire sometime in early 2021, property owners and managers have
The term ‘Great Migration’ has been a popular turn of phrase since 1916 when large groups of African Americans made their way out of the rural South United States. Since then, great migrations have come to mean that of a similar idea, when groups of people pick up from or head to specific points at
It’s been a wild year for rental housing legislation. Last year everyone was worried about emotional support animal laws, rent price ceilings, and even criminal history limitations. It seems like so long ago that New York banned criminal background checks. The new year hit with a bang and instead of all those things that plagued
The rental housing industry is always changing. Even if current craziness was off the table, there were still rapid movements that made the laws vastly different from one coast to another. In California many things could be a protected class from hair color to clothing choices, while in New York City looking at eviction records
With rental housing laws constantly changing this way and that, becoming more complex and restrictive, picking an applicant within those laws gets complicated very quickly. How is one person meant to keep up with every law shift, with every change differing from county laws to state-wide or Federal? It’s hard! That’s why we’re doing our