The screening companies, ranked by consumer complaints

Complaint mentions in the federal CFPB Consumer Complaint Database for the companies behind US rental, employment, and banking denials. Click any company for what it does, its error patterns, and exactly how to get your file free.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Data broker

67,438

Early Warning Services

Banking history

37,473

ChexSystems

Banking history

4,597

First Advantage

Employment screening

2,647

Checkr

Employment screening

2,500

HireRight

Employment screening

582

TransUnion Rental Screening (SmartMove)

Tenant screening

515

AppFolio

Property software + screening

278

SafeRent Solutions

Tenant screening

128

Experian RentBureau

Tenant screening

RealPage

Property software + screening

RentGrow (Yardi Resident Screening)

Tenant screening

CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions

Tenant screening

Counts are complaint rows in the federal CFPB Consumer Complaint Database whose text mentions the company (case-insensitive scan of 27.8 million rows, 2026-08-10). Text mentions, not official per-company tallies — treat them as a relative signal of where consumers report problems. Source: files.consumerfinance.gov bulk data.

Your three rights after a denial

Be told who screened you — the landlord, employer, or bank must identify the company behind an adverse decision.
The report itself, free — request your copy from the screening company (federal guidance: within 60 days of the denial).
Dispute, and they must investigate — inaccurate items must be investigated (typically 30 days) and corrected or deleted if they can't be verified.

Full plain-English walkthrough on our home page.

What disputes can't do — and we won't help with

Disputes fix errors. They don't erase history that's true — accurate records survive investigation. If the record is real, what helps is settling and documenting it, second-chance programs, and time. We built this site for honest people hit by wrong records.