Do you have to have credit and/or a credit score to rent or lease an apartment?
450636
No. they run credit checks to see if you've been evicted for non-payment before.
1162553
Your credit only drops after running it more than 3 times within a quarter.  You can check with a loan officer you might know.  You can check with a rental agency.  It costs about 30 bucks.
629018
If you have a one year lease there is no way to get out of it. Most leases do not allow you to sublet. You can ask your manager if they might let you sublet. Then you would have to work out the security deposit with the person that sublets it from you.\n\nIf you break your lease and move out, you will lose your deposit plus pay the rent until it is rerented. They will also charge you for any damages to the apt. or house.\n\nThey will take you to small claims court and from there you get reported to the credit bureaus. It will show up bad on your credit report plus the next place you attempt to rent will see it when they do a credit check on you.
879781
look in newspaper, craigslist.com and other places for apartments that aren't rented by large corporation or apt. business's.\n\naverage joe who is renting will not likely do a credit check and just your personality will seal the lease for you.\n\nalso don't mention any of your hard times from the past as words not spoken cannot harm you.
985417
How do you rent now? all the landlords first look for credit check.Those who had constructed House or Apartment bldg will like to rent out,by offering a selected terms,One month free rent or something like that  so if they rent it out,they could look for another property development.Say to day you have a good credit..what if after renting if your points goes to lower level-Is the Landlord going to force you to  vacant the apartments.
24797
Yes, no and maybe.  Nicer places will not look favorably on your credit.  Others may require a cosignor or a larger deposit.  In any case be up front and honest about your situation and ask for help.  Anyplace that doesn't want some form of guarantee might not be a good place to live.  If you live at home, I would suggest you stay there and work on improving your credit.  It's a poor excuse to fail to pay your credit accounts when you have no living expenses.
1080943
No and I've gone through this before.  We went from apartment to apartment and because of our credit they would not rent to us. It's insane!!!  People with bad credit need a roof over their head too.  The rich just want all the non-rich to be homeless I think. It sucks.  We did get into a low income housing complex but because of our credit, out deposit alone was $800.00.  It's a nice place actually and I love living where I am but still.  It was hard getting in too.
1158296
I'm pretty sure that once you pay the security deposit the landlord should hold the apartment for you.  I do know that when you move out of the apartment you get your security deposit back if the apartment is in good shape with no damage incurred while you were renting.  If the landlord later says he or she is unhappy with your credit and decides not to rent to you they must return your deposit.
928339
One idea is to pay some of the rent in advance to reduce the risk to the landlord. If you pay rent in advance, you're less likely to skip out, which is what the landlord is concerned about.\n\nAnother idea is to have a previous landlord write you a letter of recommendation if you had a good experience with the previous landlord.\n\nFor your credit report, you're entitled to add a 25 word explanation that stays with the credit report. The explanation outlines the reasons for your credit problems, and any prospective landlord can read the reason for the problems. If you don't have time to do that, write your own letter of explanation to give to the landlords. With a good explanation, and a plan of how you can pay the rent, the landlord may consider it.\n\nGood luck.
779030
Yes.  They often get a commission from the people who own apartments.  Look in the phone book under Rental Properties.
613519
It depends on the landlord.  Some will. Some will not. Many now have a ratio of rent to monthly income and require proof of employment.  Some will happily rent to students under these terms, others like mine, prohibit tenants from becoming full time students during a part of their lease.\n\nYou can simply call up their leasing office and ask, or contact an apartment locator and tell them your situation, they can help you find a complex that is happy to have students.
1039743
being thru this before i will tell you that its really hard to find anything with this on your credit report the best thing to do is pay off the lease and try to find a private owner that doesnt do credit checks or network with your friends and family to see it they know someone looking for a tentant or roomate
177519
Leasing is an equivalent for rent... or sort of:\nSay you need a car. Then you can buy it on credit. On your balance sheet there will be a car, and a loan.\nIf you lease it, there will be nothing. You will still owe the money for the lease, but you don't put it on your financial stamentes. Why? simply because the leasing agent only calim is against the car; not against the whole book.\nSince it's a limited liability, it keeps you "protected"
859355
In order to sign a lease you have to be an adult which is 18.  However, a lot of landlords will not rent to someone that young because they have no credit history, job history, or renters history that can be checked to see if they are reliable.
1118488
They actually get a compilation of your score- though a bank I worked for looked at Equifax mostly. \nGenerally consumers cannot check each other's credit scores,  though there is an avenue that homeowners can use to check credit before allowing renters to rent from them.  Again, it would be more of a compilation of your score from all 3 credit bureaus.  But generally for renting you don't need as high of a score as you would for buying a home.
1066192
They're looking for records of broken lease agreements.  Many apartment managers list broken leases on your credit report. They can also see reports of bounced checks, late payments, etc.  It should show all addresses you used to obtain credit in the past few years.  If there's anything you're hiding or need to explain just be honest and hopefully they'll rent to you.
40873
That depends how you define "not so good credit".  If you simply have a lot of debt (within reason), it shouldn't be a problem.  However, if you don't have good credit because of late payments, this could be an issue that would cause a landlord some concern.  After all, if you have a history of making late payments, he'd be in danger of putting himself in the same position, receiving your rent payments late...or not at all.  So the short answer to your question is "Yes...but it depends..".