The reason I ask because you explained a similar, if not identical situation above is that I will be living in CA for only a few months and will be moving to another state entirely (not entirely sure which one yet because I will be buying a primary residence somewhere new, but it will not be on an LLC yet because it will be my primary residence that I live in and rent out). 

Social scientists have done extensive blind "white name" v "black name" identical resume experiments "in the wild" with real life employers not knowing they are being experimented on, etc etc etc.- Due to the recent history of the Great Recession, the one area where the mortgage industry is not budging a single inch is in giving loans out to families that it can't be verified 10 ways from Sunday to be able to make the payments. - Add those two things together, and guess what we might end up with......

It is so frustrating because anyone who will take the time to scam someone in a deal will spend the time to figure out how to manipulate any system we create.With my idea, it would be pretty easy for 2 scammers or 1 scammer with 2 identities to falsely report several successful deals done with each other to give the appearance of legitimacy.This is a tough thing.Maybe you just let people air their laundry and take responsibility for what they have to say as Rich said.

Careers are often part of people's identity, their social circle and for some, their only network.

Couple of points that have not been discussed that Boston is using as a crutch of the case; 1) Boston is having an identity crisis with with regards to affordable housing or even an affordable rental market. 

Our situation sounds almost identical to yours.

Again, I don't think a lender will offer the same terms on a sales price of 1m property vs an identical 2m sales price property based on anything but comp value.I will start calling as this is starting to bug me again.

We happened to have one unit open, so they got to do a long walk thru, My realtor told them that the other side of the duplex was identical.

Our automation tools are almost identical! 

.- On more than one occasion I have seen homes that were updated and between tenants get ripped and stripped of all the copper and for $30 worth of metal, the thieves caused $10,000 worth of damage.You will find that in better areas, this does not happen as much, but it still happens.