Cozy requires an identity verification using a credit bureau (Experian I believe) before allowing you to collect rent.

There are ways to hide your identity but then you lose personal control over the assets as someone else has to act as the spokesman for the company.

In addition to that, the house right next to it, which was built identically to it sold for the exact same price.

Now, no one's going to die from this mix up, but it does speak to the identity of the person who is speaking the ratios.

He did tell me that the reason was that he had his identity stolen and his credit ruined.

Unless you have hundreds of millions of dollars of mortgages that are all identical and meet certain requirements, you aren't getting good pricing.Again, this all depends on what you want to do.

The current unit that I'm considering is nearly identical to my unit (i.e. it is the same floor plan and one floor above) and does not have advantages in terms of number of bedrooms, size, reduction of noise or more light, etc.

I would not use any of your identity, come up with a creative name that means nothing to someone looking for your dirty laundry. 

@Jhonatan Espinosa If you're looking to find out what the demand is for a certain unit type in a specific area and at what price point, one strategy is to set up an ad for a "hypothetical" unit identical to the one you are interested in buying. 

All that said, screen EVERYONE (especially paying attention to SS#/address mismatches, since those can signal identity theft).