tenant-screening-guide
GitHub构建公平、合规的租客筛选框架，包含客观标准、申请检查、评估方法及沟通流程。确保符合公平住房法，提供一致性决策支持，非法律建议。
触发场景
安装
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill tenant-screening-guide -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "tenant-screening-guide",
"description": "Design a fair, consistent tenant screening process for a rental. Use when asked how to screen tenants, set rental criteria, evaluate rental applicants, or build a tenant screening process. Produces a screening framework — written objective criteria, the application & checks, a consistent evaluation method, and applicant communication — built to be fair and Fair-Housing-compliant. Not legal advice."
}
Tenant Screening Guide Skill
Good tenant screening is consistent and criteria-based: the same written standards applied to every applicant, judged on objective, rental-relevant factors. That protects the landlord (better tenants, fewer problems) and keeps the process fair and legal. This skill builds that framework — the criteria, the checks, and a consistent way to decide — so screening isn't ad-hoc or discriminatory.
Note: this is a process aid, not legal advice. Tenant screening is heavily regulated — Fair Housing laws (protected classes), FCRA/background-check rules, source-of-income and criminal-history limits, and local ordinances vary widely and change. Apply criteria identically to all applicants, and have your criteria and process reviewed by a qualified attorney/property manager for your jurisdiction.
Working from a brief
Given "help me screen tenants for my rental", produce the framework anyway — propose objective, rental-relevant criteria and a consistent process, clearly flagging every legally-sensitive choice (confirm with local law/attorney). Never propose criteria based on protected characteristics; emphasise consistency.
Required Inputs
Ask for these only if they aren't already provided (else use labelled defaults):
- The rental — type, rent, and any must-haves (lease length, occupancy limits, pets).
- Your priorities — what a reliable tenant looks like to you, in objective terms (income, history).
- Process — how you accept applications and what checks you can run (credit, background, references).
- Jurisdiction — location (so legal sensitivities can be flagged) — and a reminder to confirm specifics.
Output Format
Tenant Screening Framework: [rental]
1. Written objective criteria — the standards applied to every applicant, e.g.:
- Income — a rent-to-income ratio (e.g. 2.5–3×), flagged as a setting.
- Credit / payment history — a threshold or what you look for (consistency, not just a score).
- Rental history — prior-landlord references, on-time payment, no relevant evictions (within legal limits).
- Verification — employment/income and identity. Each marked (confirm against local law) where sensitive.
2. Application & checks — what to collect (application form, ID, income proof, references) and the checks (credit/background) with required applicant consent (FCRA).
3. Consistent evaluation — apply the criteria the same way to all applicants; ideally first-qualified-first or a scored checklist — documented, so decisions are defensible.
4. Applicant communication — clear criteria up front, and proper adverse-action notice if you decline based on a report (an FCRA requirement) — flagged to confirm.
5. Compliance guardrails — apply identically to everyone; judge only rental-relevant, objective factors; never screen or comment on protected characteristics (race, colour, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, disability, and other protected classes); respect source-of-income and criminal-history limits where they apply.
Add a prominent note to have the framework reviewed by a local attorney/property manager.
Quality Checks
- Criteria are written, objective, and rental-relevant (income, history, verification) — applied to all
- Process emphasises consistency (same standard, same order) and documentation
- Required consent (FCRA) and adverse-action notice are included and flagged
- Compliance guardrails name the protected classes and the don'ts explicitly
- No criterion uses or proxies a protected characteristic
- A clear instruction to confirm with local law / an attorney is included
Anti-Patterns
- Do not screen on or mention protected characteristics (or proxies for them) — it's illegal and unfair
- Do not apply criteria inconsistently between applicants — inconsistency is where discrimination claims live
- Do not run credit/background checks without consent or skip adverse-action notice — FCRA requires them
- Do not present this as legal advice or jurisdiction-specific compliance — flag for an attorney
- Do not use blanket criminal-history bans where the law restricts them — flag to confirm locally
Based On
Fair-housing & tenant-screening practice — written objective criteria applied consistently, FCRA-compliant checks and notices, and protected-class safeguards (jurisdiction review required).
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