Do NOT lie and tell them you have a waiting list of applications at a higher rent like someone else in the thread suggested. 

No leins on the property but I just found a gas bill lying on the ground.

LYING about the charges because you "didn't think they would show up" = no deal.

I see TONS....DENY them..... if they say they wont do it, they just want to live there, they are lying and will do it behind your back...pass

She may have lied on her application but I don't think that's important.Tenant put money down in September and has already moved stuff in but is not living there.

If you "tell little white lies" there's a reasonable chance people will find out anyway, then you'll REALLY look bad!

Therein lies part of the conundrum; if the only next of kin doesn't want to have anything to do with the house then who will be the executor of the estate and more importantly how do I find them?

So many people were vacating Cleveland proper, especially the low lying areas.

If you are getting a loan as a primary residence you must intend to occupy the property as your residence. if you buy and say you are buying it as your residence but the whole time you are planning to basically not live in it, that is  lying and could get you in trouble for mortgage fraud. you may not get caught, but if you do it is taken seriously, beside legal trouble lender could call the mortgage due if they found out you were lying.

I found one called ( Rainbow Knolls) old subdivision platted in the 20s but because it was under one common ownership  ( 104 lots) assessor on the assessors plat map showed it as a 15 acre tract.. we made an offer like it was one building lot.. then we got our HML to put 104 individual loans on each lot to the tune of 3k per lot we used that 300k to build all the roads and infrastructure.. we recorded each loan individually which caused the assessor to reestablish the plat. without having to go through the platting and land use .. planners did not like it I can tell you.. but now a days out west this is quite common and there are easier ways to do this.. in Oregon for instance they call it a lot confirmation.. there are all sorts of shadow lots lying underneath lots in the city.. takes 60 days and a few hundred bucks and a current survey and you can split lots as long as there is a shadow plat that was recorded back around the turn of the century.