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Not going to be noise for prospective tenants who are denied based on a missed payment, reported without context or mitigation. As usual, this is good news for
by zentiggr 7y ago
Not going to be noise for prospective tenants who are denied based on a missed payment, reported without context or mitigation. As usual, this is good news for the business end of the database+AI, screw you end of the stick for consumers who have no access to examine, dispute, or have deleted anything the company has collected.
Transparency again. And again. Companies need to be forced to disclose the column names in their DBs and justify publicly why they are keeping each piece of data.
- beckingz 7y agoI agree with the sentiment, but the obfuscation of database column names that this would cause would be catastrophic for those of us who work with databases.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoIt's not good news for landlords if they can't find tenants because they've all been blacklisted even though many would have been good tenants absent the current crisis. Landlords who have monthly carrying costs but no tenants will quickly get hit in the wallet. In the end, unless there is an overabundance of renters, the landlords are going to have to look past this event and look at data from before the pandemic.
- jlokier 7y agoThe database people really ought to be working on a blacklist of abusive landlords and their properties, for tenants to avoid. Something easily searchable and integrated into mainstream property search sites would be great. "[ ] Hide landlords and agents with many bad reviews from verified tenants, verified history of no-fault evictions, official complaints and government sanctions." But it won't happen as long as it's the landlords who pay for the searchable listing.