Fishy Rental Assistance Request.

[Brandon Malone]

I have a tenant who applied for a property. On her rental application she marked "No" to the checkbox asking if she's on rental assistance. We moved forward and accepted her application. A week after moving into the property, she sends  Section 4 of a rental assistance form to complete stating she resides in the property. I do not want to make any judgments, however 1. The income she reported on the form with the number of people in the property does not make her eligible, 2. The program is currently closed, which leads me to believe she was already on the program. I asked her to fill out the complete form and send me the full form so I can complete the landlord portion and keep a copy for my records. She rudely stated she has private information on the form and needs just section 4 completed. 

Question: Should I complete just the section 4 of the form, w/o seeing the rest of the application and that's completed in it or do I have rights to request to complete the form only after seeing the complete filled out form. 

[Angela Smith]

I had a couple leasing my property who were not married.  They had a child together.  They were both on the lease because neither would qualify alone. Anyway, after the moved in, she contacted me asking for me to change the lease to have only her name on there.  She wanted her "fiance's" name removed so it would appear as though she was living as a single mother with $850 rent.  She wanted to get food stamps.  

I denied this request.  I will not participate in fraud.

Your situation sounds like it may be something similar going on.