Violation of the rule is a criminal offense.

They said since I qualified financially, it is not necessary  for future roommates to qualify financially but would need to pass a criminal background check.  

I have a application fee that covers background checks, criminal, and credit checks.

Not sure how he did it without the 2 parties each knowing what was going on, but the mortgage holder was very upset and threatened criminal consequences, fraud, falsifying the forms, etc.

If I read your post clearly you should steer well clear of criminal money, at least until you personally are wealthy enough to insulate yourself from association.

This could very well be a criminal theft issue as well, so you may want to put in a call to your local police department to explain the situation and find out what next steps would be.

You need the land lord from before the current LL, and it can't be a friend or family member.3) Collections are a sign of severe financial problems.4) About the only thing we don't know so far is criminal background. 

We are also looking at address history - if it matches the application, if they move a lot.We are also more lenient on criminal, looking at how many counts, how long ago, and seriousness.  

Because ITIN numbers are not to be used for credit or criminal history, we cannot place households where all residents are on ITIN numbers as we cannot get the data that we need.

@Kendall Vrana   We have been working with section 8 tenant for more than 4 years, you will find good ones,  bad ones etc,  normally they  pay higher rent,  try to find out what is the maximum allowable in your are for this property,,    you will get the money from the housing authority  but ask  them to do the process as normal tenatn,  check eviction and criminal records and do periodic inspections,  one of my tenat have been more than 4 years with no issues but we used to have one that was not the best,    We also do property management and on one occasion  the investor did not want section 8 tenant, check your state 's Fair housing if you are  allowed to do so in the mane of source of income Good luck