Your mother should be able to give you "power of attorney" giving you permission to lease the house.

Can he just mail you a key and a note saying you have permission to enter?

If it is no longer owner-occupied you will jeopardize your financing, so you'll need to sell, refinance, ask the lender permission, or risk trying to get away with being out of compliance (and having the loan called due).

This is key you MUST give 24 hour notice but that does not mean that you need their permission to enter as long as you have given proper notice, this is especially true for emergency situations, like if electrical is the issue.If the "tenant" (he) is not on the lease give them a cure or quit to leave.

"Better to ask forgiveness than permission" 

However, most investors would be trying to get the property for a discount, which means that this would probably not work.As far as I understand it, in a BK, whatever the debtor owns of value is considered his estate and he or she loses control and the ability to transfer or sell these assets without the permission of the judge (who relies on the trustee's discretion in most cases.)

Basically, as mentioned above by others, there are a lot of yellow flags for the following reasons:-The tenant may want you off their back so they can participate in illegal activity -The tenant may want to STR the property (not necessarily a bad thing--you can actually make more money this way by partnering with a tenant to do this--it's only bad if they are trying to do it without disclosing to you and obtaining your permission to do so)There a couple a reasons why someone may want to pay rent upfront with good intentions:-Perhaps they are a student who took out a loan for student housing (or their parents are footing the bill and wish to pay for the entire semester/year upfront)-With today's housing shortage, perhaps they have had so many issues competing for houses they want to remain competitive with other applicants in this market by using this negotiation tactic The way to protect yourself is to do exactly what you and others said: solid screening/background check and if it were me, I'd also ensure my tenants knew I'd be doing lots of (legal) checks on my property through the year.

Pleasant, South Carolina, whose contact information is provided with his permission.

They explained that the line set runs to 3 other condensers at this condo complex and that it would be a big job and I need permission from the hoa.

If I show up and someone is there who doesn't have permission or shouldn't be there, and the police are "backed up for months", then conscious or unconscious they're getting out of the house.