Sounds familiar and common.
Keep marketing for a qualified applicant.
He knows that when the divorce goes thru, the judge will release his liability to your lease.
Too many lawyers know how to manipulate the system in divorces. You are the only one with something to lose.
DO NOT rent to someone in the middle of a divorce. There are too many issues, they flip-flop about divorcing, they use your house as a negotiating tool, he/she cheats him/her out of ______, etc.
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