Related to the author's post, the rents do seem low.

Just contact the county housing authority and they can give you the guidelines for 1,2,3 br maximum rents etc.

Anytime anything involves government authority there is usually a mountain of red tape one must trudge through in order to get the desired outcome.

On the other hand, if you believe that the tenant is doing the second thing (using someone else's identity to fraudulently obtain service), and the utility company won't cooperate, then there's probably not a lot you can do in that situation unless you can prove it and/or the Housing Authority has a rule about having service in the tenant's own name and they can compel the tenant to prove that they do.Lastly, it sounds like this is a problem tenant so you should start looking into your state's requirements to end the tenancy when the lease is up, and issue the proper notice of non-renewal as soon as appropriate so that she's out when the term of the lease ends.

The housing authority does the criminal & background checks before they are approved for the program with annual checks so you/I don't have to do it.

Without going through authorities what is the legal process?

For example, if you look at Houston, The Woodlands Sugarland Texas the total building permits issued based on annual report was 42673, but if you add up all 12 months from the monthly report the total was 44879.Please note that I used the monthly/annual reports titled "New Privately Owned Housing Units Authorized Unadjusted Units by Metropolitan Area" which I got from https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/I just want to make sure my analysis is accurate.

For the most part, if you're talking about a paltry sum of EM, authorities (RE Associations/courts/etc) probably wouldn't force it to be returned if the buyer just changed his/her mind.

Maybe NY is faster than the housing authorities down here, but with rentals going in a day or less on market it is a major hassle and income loss to deal with people who want you to go through the housing authority hoops.

Your rent would be guaranteed for a year by the housing authority.