[tptacek]

This is pretty clearly not the case. I rented in relatively hot markets --- there was actual bidding for the SOMA loft we got back around 2000! --- and I had bad credit (put differently: when I was renting, I would have had better credit had I no contact with the consumer credit system whatsoever), and my credit score never once kept me from getting a lease, or even changed the terms of a lease.

[hundt]

The person you are responding to claims that the situation has changed in the last 10 or 15 years, so I think your comment is not really responsive.