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    Default Can Your Landlord Ask for a New Credit Report Before Renewing a Lease

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: SF, CA

    I've lived at my place for past 10 years and have never been late on payments. My landlord wants to "UPDATE" my information and is requesting me for a new credit report. I don't like giving information to others and nothing has changed since then.

    -- edit: not signing a new lease, month-to-month, just asked me out of no where.

    Is this legal?

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    Default Re: Can Your Landlord Ask for a New Credit Report Before Renewing a Lease

    Is this a property that is covered by the rent control ordinance?

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    Default Re: Can Your Landlord Ask for a New Credit Report Before Renewing a Lease

    yes

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    Default Re: Can Your Landlord Ask for a New Credit Report Before Renewing a Lease

    A lease extension is the sort of financial transaction that does allow for a credit check, although as it's not associated with your moving into the premises there should not be any fee to you for a credit check. (See Civil Code, Sec. 1950.6, relating to when a tenant may be charged a fee for a credit check.) However, as refusing to cooperate with a credit check is not "just cause" for eviction under the San Francisco rent control ordinance, it's not clear what your landlord can do if you decline to cooperate.

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    Default Re: Can Your Landlord Ask for a New Credit Report Before Renewing a Lease

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    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: SF, CA

    I've lived at my place for past 10 years and have never been late on payments. My landlord wants to "UPDATE" my information and is requesting me for a new credit report. I don't like giving information to others and nothing has changed since then.

    -- edit: not signing a new lease, month-to-month, just asked me out of no where.

    Is this legal?
    Not only is it legal, but the landlord doesn't appear to need your consent according to the Fair Credit Reporting Act Section 604.

    https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/sites/d...orting-act.pdf

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    Default Re: Can Your Landlord Ask for a New Credit Report Before Renewing a Lease

    If the landlord retained the information necessary to pull the report, the landlord would not need to ask for it the second time around. I suspect that there is a records maintenance issue, as the original lease was entered a decade ago.

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