Tenant employment verification confirms that a rental applicant's stated employer, work status, and pay cadence are real and current. Operators traditionally do it by calling HR or reading employment letters. Burnt does it by having the applicant connect their payroll provider, so the answer comes from the system of record instead of a document.
Employment verification
Confirm employment without chasing HR.
The applicant connects their payroll provider once. Verified employer, work status, and pay cadence flow into your applicant file straight from the source, with no HR calls and no editable documents in between.
No phone calls. No HR letters. No stale PDFs.
How employment verification works.
One link covers the whole check. Your team sends it, the applicant connects, and verified employment fields come back without anyone picking up the phone.
Why the source beats the document.
An employment letter is whatever the applicant typed. Payroll records are where employment actually lives, so Burnt verifies there instead of reviewing what the applicant uploaded.
No letter to edit
Employment letters are editable files, and a convincing fake takes minutes to make. A payroll connection has no document to edit, so a fake never enters the file.
Removed, not detected
Document-AI tools flag fake letters after they are submitted. Burnt removes the letter from the process, so there is nothing to analyze and nothing to miss.
Minutes, not phone tag
Calling HR means voicemail, callbacks, and days of waiting per file. Verified employment typically returns in minutes after the applicant connects, so the application keeps moving.
Works where HR doesn't
Remote employers, second jobs, contractors, and recent hires already on payroll rarely have an HR line to call. Every source the applicant connects appears in the same verified package.
93%
of rental operators experienced application fraud in the past 12 months
NMHC Pulse Survey, 2024
500%
increase in AI-generated fraudulent documents from April to December 2025
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38%
of property managers discovered application fraud only after move-in
TransUnion, 2023Pay per screening, not per seat.
One full package covers source-verified income and employment, identity, and partner credit, background, and eviction: $39.99 per applicant, $20 during beta. Sending applications is free, and portfolio terms are custom.
Short answer
How does tenant employment verification work?
Tenant employment verification confirms a rental applicant's current employer, work status, and pay cadence. Traditionally that means phone calls to HR or reviewing letters the applicant could have edited. With Burnt, the applicant connects their payroll provider in a secure session and verified employment details return straight from the source, typically in minutes.
Frequently asked questions.
Send the link.
Guide the renter.
Review one package.
Launch with screening links or talk through a portfolio workflow with the Burnt team.
