All landlords can check that.
Basically, all landlords will investigate a customer's credit records before renting out a property, and if there is a record of defaulting on rent payments, many landlords would rather leave the place vacant than rent to such a person.
In this regard, America does it quite well, as both landlords and tenants' interests can be somewhat protected.
This is also one of the reasons why many American middle-class people never recover, once they run into economic problems and have a default record.
Their overall credit will be impacted, affecting many things that were once simple and making it even harder to turn things around.
In other words, if Val is convicted because of this incident, finding a job afterwards would become a luxury for him.
Robert realized the seriousness of the problem, "Since Luke and Daisy have said so, then go, there's nothing to hesitate about.
