There are moments when you might be looking to rent an apartment in which you can live, but you have a bad credit history which might lead to the landlord being reluctant to give you access to his or her premises for fear that you might not pay the required expenses, making them run at a loss. The landlord has every reason to suspect that you are not capable of paying him or her the rent that you might owe at the end of every month because your details do not look good and most of them are not ready to gamble with their property. Another thing that will also make it hard to rent an apartment is when you have previously filed a petition for bankruptcy because it shows that you have debts and therefore you might not be able to get rent to pay for the apartment as early as is required.
There are many things that you might consider doing to convince a landlord that you will be paying them for renting you their house and it will make them more confident to allow you access. The method you can use to convince the landlord that his rent will be paid well is first by looking for a family member who has the kind of credit record required to sign the lease contract for the house with you so that there is an agreement binding them such that when you fail to pay rent in time then they can be asked to pay for you, and therefore the landlord is sure that his business is not at risk of loss.
The second thing to do is that at the time that you are talking to the landlord, you should be straight about your credit situation and how you are working to make it better so that they do not have to investigate and find out on their own. The good thing about not hiding the fact that you are currently not in a good financial position to the apartment owner makes him look at you as an honest person, and they can, therefore, be interested in renting you the house if your plan to get money in time and pay rent looks credible to them.
Thirdly, you can also partner with another individual who has a good financial record and with no major debts to rent the house with you and be paying monthly rent together. The fact that your partner has a good credit history will make the landlord to overlook your bad credit because he knows that in case you do not pay rent then the partner will pay to maintain his positive credit.