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Suing Your Landlord? You Could Find Yourself Blacklisted

Suing Your Landlord? You Could Find Yourself Blacklisted

Bankrate has an interesting article about tenant screening bureaus. They’re like credit reporting agencies, but they collect information from utility companies, state governments and the courts. More troubling, some tenant screening bureaus compile a database of people who have been involved in legal disputes with their landlords. What’s the trouble with that?