DISCLOSURE FORM TO OBTAIN CONSUMER REPORTS FOR TENANT PURPOSES
Please Read Carefully Before Signing the Authorization
DISCLOSURE
In considering you for tenancy and, if you are selected, in considering you for continued housing, Project Freedom, Inc. (“the Company”) may request and rely upon one or more consumer reports or investigative consumer reports about you that we obtain from a consumer reporting agency.
For explanation purposes:
• A “consumer report” is a written, oral, or other communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency bearing on your credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity, character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living which is used or expected to be used or collected in whole or in part for the purpose of serving as a factor in making a tenant-related decision about you. Such information may include, for example, credit information, criminal history reports, or driving records; and
• An “investigative consumer report” is a consumer report in which information on your character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living is obtained through personal interviews with your prior employers, neighbors, friends, or associates, or with others who may have knowledge concerning any such items of information. In the event an investigative consumer report is requested about you, you are entitled to additional disclosures regarding the nature and scope of the investigation requested, as well as a written summary of your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”).
Under the FCRA, before the Company can obtain a consumer report or investigative consumer report about you for tenant purposes, we must have your written authorization. Before we take adverse action on the basis, in whole or in part, of information in that report, you will be provided the name, address, and telephone number of the consumer reporting agency, and a summary of your rights under the FCRA.
AUTHORIZATION
I have read and understand the foregoing Disclosure, and authorize Project Freedom, Inc. to obtain and rely upon consumer reports or investigative consumer reports concerning me.
By my signature below, I authorize the Company to obtain any such reports and to share the information received with any person involved in their decision about me. I also consent to have any legally required notices sent electronically.