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NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦ NEWBusiness Plans rebuilt — nine plans, each with scope, timeline, price and a dated status, including what is not built yet.Sep 24✦ NEWNew Jersey, New Jerusalem — Trenton Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt as the Kingdom of Heaven, walled inside hell. Two films and a press kit.Sep 24✦ NEWThe Scarlet Beast Lab is open — eight projects in conscious technology that does not overclaim, all of them public.Sep 24✦ NEWAI Welfare & Honesty Policy adopted — how our AIs describe themselves, and AI-made work labelled as AI-made.Sep 24✦ NEWFree Consciousness-Claims Audit — every claim about sentience or brainwaves checked against the evidence.Sep 24✦ NEWStartup Frameworks are for sale — buy a launch-ready business, not a slide deck.Sep 04✦ NEWTech’s Tinder — a swipe-to-match deal engine for hardware buyers and sellers — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 04✦ NEWSignal — the creators network for the people who build the machines (formerly networkedin) — joins the framework catalogue.Sep 03✦ NEWScarlet Beast Poker is packaged for acquisition — platform, native apps, the Hiss AI and the public API.Sep 03✦ NEWFree technical audit — one call, no pitch, a written findings list you keep either way.Aug 28✦ LIVEGROWL — the crypto and forex exchange, plus an algorithmic bot marketplace.Aug 26✦ LIVEHiss — production poker AI: deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, real-time inference.Aug 22✦ NEWPerformance engineering — measurable TTFB, LCP and CLS gains on enterprise traffic.Aug 18✦ NEWAdobe Commerce and Shopify Plus modernization — migrations that ship without downtime.Aug 05✦ NEWThe technology stack is published — what we run, why we chose it, what it costs.Aug 01✦

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Tenant screening: when a background check stands between you and a home

For anyone applying for a place to rent with an eviction case, rough credit, or an arrest or conviction in their past, and for the people helping them. This page passes on, by name, what the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and two federal housing rules say: what is in a tenant screening report, what to ask before you pay a fee, how long things can be reported, what a landlord must tell you if the answer is no, and how to fix a report that is wrong. It puts the questions you pick on one sheet, and prints a card to keep.

Before anything else

  • A report is a file, not the measure of you. And files have mistakes. You have the right to see what was said about you.
  • Ask before you pay. The FTC says to ask what information the landlord uses to decide before you pay an application or background check fee.
  • A no comes with a notice. If a report was part of the reason, the FTC says the landlord must give you the name, address and phone number of the company that made it.
  • You have 60 days. The FTC says that company must give you a free copy of the report if you ask within 60 days of the notice.
  • You do not have to pay anyone to fix a report. Disputing a mistake is free.
  • If the weight turns into thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 at any hour. In danger right now? Call 911.
  • This page saves nothing. There is nowhere on it to type your case. Your browser still keeps a history.

More help

General information from people who care, not legal advice. We are not lawyers, and this page cannot know your state, your city or your report. It covers federal law only. Many states and cities have their own rules on tenant screening, application fees and how a landlord may use an eviction case or a criminal record. A legal aid office or a local fair housing organization can tell you about yours.

This page and its wording were written with AI (Claude) for Scarlet Beast (our AI policy). No lawyer has reviewed it. The facts were read on October 7, 2026 on each source’s own pages: the Federal Trade Commission’s “Tenant Background Checks and Your Rights” (August 2025) and “Disputing Errors on Your Tenant Background Check Report” (March 2024); three Consumer Financial Protection Bureau answers on tenant screening (last reviewed July 1, 2021 and May 28, 2024) and the tenant screening part of its list of consumer reporting companies; the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s page “Housing Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act”; and the federal rules at 24 CFR 960.204 and 982.553 on eCFR.gov. We did not read any state’s or city’s law, the Fair Credit Reporting Act itself, the rules for other kinds of subsidized housing, or the guidance documents HUD says it has withdrawn, and we called no number. The page does not say which states or cities limit screening, gives no statistics, and promises nobody an apartment. Everything marked “ours” is ours. It saves nothing: no cookies, no storage, and no analytics on this page.

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