The couple upstairs that is man and woman can be late but not the same sex couple in building 2.That is why businesses have policies, so every tenant is treated identical because if not you open up yourself to all sorts of issues.

I've made up names to protect identities.

You can't compare two identical houses, using a market in California and compare it to a market in the Midwest, and treat them both the same. 3 - Probably the most important reason this whole thing blows up is this.  

One of the identity theft scams is grabbing people's info to open cell phone accounts to conduct illegal business with.  

I know that's a small thing but I put 25% down on 4 identical units that's a mistake I would have made with 4 times the downside. 

I had my identity stolen, plus a short sale (which had read as foreclosure proceedings on my credit report) plus some other bad marks on my credit.

I know there are quite some news about identity theft.

I'm also wondering about a situation where you have two identical tenants.

Has any effort to obfuscate your identity ever been successful in preventing any lawsuit ever?

If you had two identical properties, with identical values, bills, mortgage, DP, repairs. etc...