Landlords Have a New Hardball Tactic: Tanking Your Credit Score

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A new tactic for punishing deliquent tenants: destroy their credit scores

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/credit/renters-landlords-debt-collectors-credit-scores-1a1dbae3?mod=hp_featst_pos3

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Makes sense. I can see how this could be abused but in the present environment, it probably makes sense.

For those who aren’t subscribed to the lying, dishonest, sleazy WSJ, here’s a link to circumvent the paywall:
https://archive.is/AgLvF

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Sorry for not providing the non paywall link… I have no excuse unless laziness counts as one

edit: I ended my subscription to WSJ but I can still access all their articles online

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