Dishonest lenders....has anyone experienced this?

[Diana Villalon]

Found a deal to house hack, spoke to 4 different lenders and everyone promised they could do the deal when they asked for the initial set of documents. Decided to go with one of the one that promised we would have closing in 21 days... It is day 9 and my work got a request from the lender to state something in writing that's not true... is this common practice? It's not lying about the income, because  the income is there, but it's on a different category (not w2). Still feels dishonest, has anyone dealt with something similar before?