The Landlords and Tenants Association of Kenya (LATAK) now want permission to contact tenant's employer directly over the raising cases of arrears occasioned by Covid-19 pandemic.
This, he said, will allow landlords to verify a house occupant's inability to pay rent amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has rendered many Kenyans jobless while others contend with unpaid leave or massive pay cuts.
Most landlords have since snubbed State calls to reduce rent for workers hit by the effects of Coronavirus, which saw a third of households fail to pay their April rent, according to the Treasury.
A national survey conducted by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) last month on the impact of the disease on households revealed that only 8.5 per cent of landlords had offered rent reliefs in April.
The survey, conducted between May 7 and 9, also revealed that 30.5 per cent of the tenants interviewed were unable to pay rent in April.
