I can see if it was inhabitable, but she wants something a certain way on your expense.

I would never allow that in any of my 120+ rentals.Tenants pay rent to inhabit a home, NOT destroy it.

- any other major red flags that I see with the tenants and the property inhabitants in generalAll of those should be pretty easy to see even if you do not have much experience and your agent may even be able to fill in the gaps for you.

You probably noticed that the government created quite a strong picture among all inhabitants that everybody should be almost 'in their right' of not paying rent when they had a difficult situation.

Would you allow this person to inhabit your rental?

Any code violations that would condemn the house must be fixed before the house can be inhabited.

Any reasonable allocation method.For example, allocating the mortgage interest based on square footage might make a lot of sense.Allocating the water bill based on inhabitants per unit might make a lot of sense too.

I had an appraiser explain it to me this way - the property must be inhabitable, which to FHA means all major systems in working order, and all major appliances in working order (not including washer and dryer).

After all, we all inhabit this blue spaceship, right?

I have researched the multiple occupancy rules and it appears that Northern Virginia does not allow more than four unrelated individuals to inhabit a house.