CIC Announcements

Win a Gift Card and our Bottomless Thanks

You keep us going! To say thanks for supporting us, we’re raffling away a $100 digital Starbucks gift card to one lucky customer! CIC is always looking for new ways to enhance your experience with us, improve our already exceptional risk mitigation solutions, and expand our educational resources – and we’d love to hear your

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CIC Announces ADA Website Update to Help Those with Disabilities

The Americans with Disabilities Act has been around since 1990, but has always been changing. With new technology comes new understanding. Everyone has very different needs, and there are always new ways to approach those needs to help out our customers and consumers. We’re proud to say that CIC now has brand new accessibility adjustments

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You are Our Favorite! Are We Yours?

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

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The Grand Update is Here! CIC’s Regulatory Matrix Will Keep You Safe

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

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Renter FICO Scores Dropped, but it’s Not the Time To Worry

CIC has released credit, criminal and eviction data trends from 2019’s final quarter, October through December. The quarterly data analysis highlights the number of rental applicants that have criminal and eviction records on their tenant background checks, as well as the average FICO credit score. The analysis showed that, for the most part, many tenants

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Renter FICO Scores Have Dipped: This is Why it’s Not a Big Deal

CIC has released the credit, criminal and eviction data for July through September 2019 and discovered that your tenant’s FICO scores trended downward. CIC’s quarterly data analysis highlights the number of rental applicants that have criminal and eviction records on their tenant background checks, as well as the average FICO credit score. Compared to the

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How to Help CIC Donate to Charity with a Golden Ticket

We’re excited to announce that CIC will be donating to charity during this year’s Apartmentalize Conference in Denver, Colorado, and we invite you to be a part of it! All NAA attendees will be able to play plinko at our booth (#1578) and win donations to the charity of your choice. Help us spread the

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criminal eviction credit scoring data for the multifamily housing industry

Renter FICO Scores Trended Down in the first Quarter and This is Why

CIC has released credit, criminal and eviction data for January through March, 2019 and discovered that your renter’s FICO scores trended downward. CIC’s quarterly data analysis highlights the number of rental applicants that have criminal and eviction records on their renter background checks, as well as the average FICO credit score. Compared to last quarter

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criminal eviction credit scoring data for the multifamily housing industry

Tenants with Criminal Records are 20% of Rental Background Checks

CIC has released a criminal, eviction, and credit report for September through December, 2018. Highlighting the number of rental applicants that have criminal and eviction records on their tenant background checks, as well as the average FICO credit score, CIC’s quarterly data analysis shows that the applicants that are applying to your rental properties have

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Introducing the Reimagined CIC Blog!

The CIC Blog is dedicated to keeping you up-to-date on all things rental housing industry related, and we’ve redone our blog to help you easily search for the content you’re looking for. Not only have we given our blog a makeover, but we’re now located at www.cicreports.com/resources. Take a look at our new and improved

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