How to Evaluate a Tenant Screening Vendor, Impact of ROAD to Housing Act to SFR Investors, with Boom Co-founder Rob Whiting

Rob Whiting is the co-founder and CEO of Boom, a proptech company building the future of rental financial services for residential property managers across single-family rental, manufactured housing and multifamily. Boom's three products — Boom Report for rent reporting, Boom Screen for applicant underwriting, and Boom CRM for agentic leasing and self-showing — serve hundreds of thousands of doors and count American Homes 4 Rent and Manage America among their key partners. Before Boom, Rob founded ventures in healthcare and education, including Haystack Health, a telemedicine company, and a financial aid organization focused on FAFSA access. Rob is based in Austin, Texas. (02:55) Why Rob built Boom (05:44) The ROAD to Housing Act, explained (07:11) The 350-home cap & how institutions keep buying (14:01) Rent reporting as a compliance path (16:09) What Boom does & who it serves (17:44) Is screening a commodity? Data quality & hit logic (21:51) How to evaluate a tenant screening vendor (25:47) How the ManageAmerica partnership came together (30:00) Lessons from partnering with AMH Homes (32:48) Closing the leasing stack gap with Boom CRM (35:52) Coexisting with Yardi, RealPage, & AppFolio (37:40) Collaboration Superpower: Daniel Ek 🏙️ Learn more: -Visit Boom -Rob Whiting on LinkedIn -SFR Leasing Operating System Boom Secures $15M Series A Funding 🏙️ Virtual Events: -AI & Innovation Forum: Multifamily: on 9/29 -SFR / BTR Forum: on 10/22 🏙️ In-person Events: -Institutional Investors & PE Forum: in NYC on 9/16 -South Florida Capital & Development Forum: in Miami on 10/15 -Finance Forum: in NYC on 11/3 -All upcoming Commercial Observer events 🏙️ Connect with Tangent: -Edward Cohen on LinkedIn -Zach Aarons on LinkedIn -Tangent on LinkedIn