PetScreening Gives Property Managers a Wealth of Data To Make Decisions and Protect Themselves

PetScreening founder and CEO John Bradford created the company because he saw firsthand what the multifamily industry needed to improve the way it works with pets and their owners. “I like to say PetScreening was created for property managers by a property manager,” he told Mike Brewer (Multifamily Collective), “and there’s a lot of areas where we just don’t dig deep enough. What PetScreening does is do the deeper digging, collect that data, and codify it on a formal record so that you have it at your fingertips.” PetScreening collects information on any incidents with pets in a building as well as the owner so that property managers can make informed decisions about both.

If a building wants a tenant to go on the record as not having a pet, PetScreening can record that information as well. That idea came from customers. “We said, well, what if we had a no-pet profile? Twenty percent of the people that start a no-pet profile actually go back and switch it to a pet registration before they submit it.” Having a record of pet ownership vs. non-ownership and a signed acknowledgement that tenants have read and understood relevant policies encourages responsible behavior and can decrease a building owner’s risk and liability.

Bradford explains these and other ways PetScreening protects building owners and operators in the interview.