Automate Resident Screening

For Senior Living Communities

By Amy Reinholds on Feb 25, 2025 in Senior Living

Senior living providers, like all property managers, must carefully screen prospective residents to ensure the safety of their communities. To avoid issues and liability risks, it’s important to examine criminal history and verify income when identifying new residents. And while resident screening may sound simple, keeping track of all requirements — for each individual prospect — is challenging.

That’s why an automated screening system, one tailored to senior living communities, is essential. Fortunately for Yardi clients using RentCafe Senior CRM, that exact system is integrated into the resident move-in workflow. Meet ScreeningWorks Pro, our tenant background check solution.

Why use resident screening?

ScreeningWorks Pro provides comprehensive reports and automated recommendations to help senior living providers select low-risk residents, ensuring a safer environment for everyone. You can access critical information in real time, and results are customized to meet your criteria.

Best of all, everything is compiled in one centralized system. That’s because ScreeningWorks Pro is integrated with the Voyager leasing workflow in Senior CRM. Both Senior CRM and ScreeningWorks Pro can communicate back and forth to:

• Submit applicant information for screening
• Submit changes to existing screenings
• Communicate application results back into the system’s screening page

Benefits of ScreeningWorks Pro

What else sets ScreeningWorks Pro apart? Tailored to the needs of senior living providers, this built-in solution helps you:

• Obtain applicant credit histories that can be evaluated using Vantage 3.0 or your specific credit criteria
• Conduct comprehensive criminal record checks
• Examine civil court records for past landlord-tenant disputes including filings, judgements and forcible detainers
• Enable automatic income verification
• Review apartment rental payment history from Experian RentBureau
• Check for possible matches to the Specifically Designated National (SDN) list from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
• Customize your screening processes to ensure you comply with Fair Housing laws, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and other laws governing housing providers

In short, ScreeningWorks Pro offers consistent guidance, analytics and insights to help providers identify low-risk residents — and maintain thriving communities.

Learn more about RentCafe Senior CRM

RentCafe Senior CRM provides mobile-friendly sales and marketing tools for the unique needs of senior living providers. As part of the Yardi Senior Living Suite, this single connected solution unlocks the ability to drive quality leads, increase resident retention, produce sales projections, boost staff performance and more.

Learn how ScreeningWorks Pro simplifies resident screening in senior living. For more details, reach out to our team.