It might work for a small time landlord, but larger real estate agencies have other ways to check your income.
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I mean, that's fraud, but you gotta do what you gotta do, housing is ridiculous now. How is there no legislation or anything being done to fix this? And how convenient is it that all of this is happening after we had a President who makes money off of real estate?
I'd do it too. Rent requirements are unrealistic as is general housing. There has to be more homeless people than ever now.
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Meanwhile in the Czech Republic..
Hi, is it still available? Yes. When I can move in? Tommorow. Thx, see you tomorrow then.
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I'm all in to say that the situation to get an appartement is out of control but isn't that fraud / counterfeit?
It depends, in Spain there's a thing called Seguro de Alquiler, (Rental insurance? Not sure the specific name of this service in the US). If the landlord offers a place for rent and has a rental insurance involved, giving them false documents could get you in trouble because of contracts and stuff. But, if the rental is done through a Real State Agency and the realtor (or directly through the lanlord) just asked for it to see but no mention of it in the contract then I think you could get away with it
I think rent prices are out of control but it seems reasonable for a landlord to verify that you can afford the rent.
How do you reconcile those two points though? if rent prices are out of control why is it still reasonable for a landlord to verify affordability? to me it seems they're contributing to the unaffordability (assuming) and then imposing that the tenant then meets this fabricated requirement.
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Step 1: File articles of incorporation for an LLC. Step 2: Open bank account for your new business. Step 3: Write checks to yourself from said business. Step 4: Tell future landlord that you're "self employed." Step 5: File dissolution of LLC -or- make sure to pay any annual franchise taxes, depending on your state, if you decide to keep it active.
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i assume she also had to photoshop her w2, which is required to provide. forging government docs can't be good... as is getting blacklisted from renting apartments. i am curious about how below she is from meeting the requirements (you need to make 40x the rent).
You might not be prepared to take the risk, she was, and it worked. Whining about people not following the system in a rigged system is absurd.
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You can use the same trick in job applications.
If they didn't check themselves, they didn't really care in the first place.
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I'm guessing her rent is double my mortgage, if not higher.
Rent often is. But since renting doesn't build credit, lots of us can't "afford" a house even though we'd actually be saving money paying a mortgage instead of rent.
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