--207.172.xx.xxx

Well, they're going to "fudge" their paperwork. I believe every application I've ever seen you disclose number of household residents and income from all. --72.70.xxx.xx

In my area I would probably end up filling out a landlord statement for them to get there benefits and regardless of who is on the lease I would name everyone living in the house on the statement --72.231.xxx.xxx

BRAD --68.51.xx.xxx

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So - what you are saying ....... you are letting a tenants problem become your problem and they are also asking you to commit Fraud . Hmmmmm --24.34.xx.xxx

Nh, this has nothing to do with me or my objectives. They're not worth lying for. --207.172.xx.xxx

If Mom is going to live there she must be a Lessee. If she is not going to live there she can be a Guarantor as Brad said. Check to see how to do this in your state. Brad said he uses a separate guarantor agreement. Here, per the advice of my attorney, they are listed in the lease as guarantor and sign the lease as such. --70.178.x.xx

I don't join in with these types of reindeer games with tenants. --50.32.xxx.xxx

NE, I think that's the ticket. Just don't get involved with it. Mom is on the lease if she's living there and let them do the lying. --207.172.xx.xxx

If eyeglass companies had a -L-ray- test this would be a 20-20 test. --76.188.xxx.xx

This is similar to a mother with a child who qualifies for Medicaid because the father does not support the child but they are all living together. If they are telling you they are going to lie to get utility assistance and you enable them by not putting her on the lease, you are considered just as guilty. --162.82.xxx.xx

And if they are lying to get assistance, what else are they lying about. --96.236.xx.xx

Gail --71.203.xx.xx

They're trying to game the system so that my tax dollars will subsidize all three of them. No, no, no! --204.210.xxx.xxx

Gotta be able to Stand on Your Own 2 Feet. --47.35.xx.xx

I do the same with Craigslist workers. The moment they tell me their life story which is usually the first day or hour I meet them I cut them off and say I don't want to hear it. Business only. I'm so sick of people's stories that they want to tell me. --173.239.xxx.x

It's one thing to live on assistance if you've got it set up right (whatever one thinks of assistance). It's whole another thing to ask someone else to lie for them to get extra benefits, and commit fraud. --72.188.xxx.xx

Mom is dumping daughter on you and you will have your hands full. I would not take them. Mom is not coming. If she does show up they are asking you to do something illegal which will soon be caught and there goes the public assistance. This just happened to me sort of. Long term good paying tenant's granddaughter got pregnant and wanted to live with the baby's father. Their other choices were to live with his mother or separately at their own parents homes. So when tenant agreed to cosign I took them based on the fact that they both worked. Female soon was not working of course. The male was well liked at his job but that soon began to change. Then I found the skunky pot smell in the hallway. No one wants to employ some one who smells like skunk. You can ask what the disability is but if it's mental there will be trouble. I would run from this dishonest applicant. --73.33.xxx.xxx

Many times it's a Mother with Children and she wan'ts the baby's daddy off the contract so she can get public assistance. If I went along with this it would committing a fraud. --47.156.xx.xx

What will be your plan if they don't receive utilities assistance one month or get kick off assistance and can't pay rent? --72.24.xx.xx

I wonder what the credit reports look like? Since paying utilities is an issue for them, I wouldn't be surprised if there are collections from util. companies on there. --72.188.xxx.xx