Most landlords require that a tenant application be written out before the rental process can be initiated. This kind of an application is similar to any other query form that you would fill out. However, the tenant application form must include questions that are reveal details about the prospective tenant's job and salary. Usually, the tenant application form asks the following questions:

• Brief details about your past and current employers, including their names, addresses and contact numbers.

• Brief details about your past and current landlords, including their names, addresses and contact numbers.

• The names, addresses, and telephone numbers of people could be your references.

• Your social security number.

• Your driver's license number.

• Your bank account numbers.

As your financial status and acumen is revealed by a credit report, the landlord has the right to ask you for a copy of the same. The landlord can ask you about your present service and the kind of money that you earn. Your ability to pay rent and how prompt you will be about it can be understood from your answers. Thus they will help the landlord make up his mind about renting to you. The tenant application form cannot enquire about caste, religious choices, gender, sex or medical conditions. The landlord however enquire about the number of people who will live in his rental unit.

A person who has no history of default payments is usually chosen as a prospective tenant by the landlord.