Unethical Life Pro Tips

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An Unethical Life Pro Tip (or ULPT) is a tip that improves your life in a meaningful way, perhaps at the expense of others and/or with questionable legality. Share your best tips you've picked up throughout your life, and learn from others!

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Rent requirements in the US are nuts (i.imgur.com)

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[–] OhFudgeBars 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't speak for the whole country, but renting in the places I've lived in the USA has been scarcely more complicated than that.

[–] ilmagico 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure why you're being downvoted, but can confirm: plenty of shoddy landlords that won't check anything. If you want to live in a good (read: expensive) place, though, usually they do.

[–] jj4211 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't rented for a long time, but I have a funny story along those lines.

I was renting a place with two other people. When we applied, we did some amount of contract signing and such.

So one of the people decided to move to another state in the Spring of 2001, but we got a replacement tenant. We walked down to the rental office and mentioned that this new guy was moving in and asked if there's any process to take care of. The office said "it doesn't matter so long as the checks come in". Ok.

So on September 12th, all of a sudden they come to our door and demand why we didn't file paperwork (they noticed in the wake of September 11th that an arabic guy had been writing them checks and knew they were screwed if someone came auditing).