Tenant credit screening is often used by landlords to check the credit history of rental applicants. Landlords may use tenant screening services to obtain credit reports on potential tenants, and may decide not to rent a property to a tenant with an unfavorable credit report. Landlords generally use tenant credit screening to protect themselves against tenants who might be considered ﾓhigh risk.ﾔ Examples of high risk items sometimes found in credit reports include bankruptcies and past eviction judgments. Landlords also use tenant credit screening to determine the prospective tenant's ability to pay rent; some landlords may choose not to rent to those with bad credit, due to the financial risk involved. It is possible to have eviction judgments removed from a person's credit report under certain circumstances, and in some cases past evictions may not appear on all credit reports. Landlords often use additional background checks to make up for any information that may be missing from a standard credit report.