Payment that is stolen or lost, checks that are canceled prior to cashing etc. are not the responsibility of the landlord.

It could also be that they are using stolen social security numbers, which is why they will not provide them. 

@David Weintraub I can't speak for NJ, but it seems like Bitcoin mania with some of these new investors. 

I've had termites, sweating slabs with no plumbing leaks, broken drain pipes, missing HVAC units, copper stolen from under vacant property, properties red tagged by the county, accelerated mortgages because of due on sale clauses, pets that did 35K of damage, and so many other things. 

@Steven Jefferson: It's different in Metro Detroit versus City of Detroit.City of Detroit Landlord Challenges:EVICTIONS: MAY take longer if you don't know what you're doing OR if a judge is having a bad dayINSPECTIONS: city requires a rental inspection every 3 years that is an par with those required in the suburbs, but also requires a lead-based paint inspection annually.THEFT: vacant properties are broken into and furnace & HWH stolen.

People in Ghana doesn't care about global warming, it could be specific industrial country ideology problem only.I am ten times more worried whether my car in San Francisco would be hijacked or my Prius catalyst converter is being stolen while nobody calling 911 anymore --rather than worrying Tampa FL residential housing is flooded with sea level rise.

To address my initial concern regarding the person, am I going too far in being a good samaritan in wanting to help he investor who may not be aware their name is being stolen?  

(Did I mention that my one B-/C+ property had the copper coil stolen from the AC unit on the DAY I signed escrow?

They're all busy boarding up their vacant houses to keep from having the windows and doors stolen!

Fair enough, I thought, I would like to know the results...NOPE, county says the results will only be given to the one who complained (I later found out it was all okay with the water) I mention this to my brother, just in passing....A few days later I arrive to a parking lot full of cop cars...she claimed that I had stolen her saddle...and describes a very expensive saddle , not the ones I helped her unload when we moved her horses.Then I started getting evening calls...from other horse boarders...seems that when I would go home in the evening she would kill the power to the arenas...lights interfered with her 'rights' to quiet enjoyment