Renting with a felony?

[Notes]

Anyone know how you can rent an apartment with a drug felony conviction (intent to distribute/manufacture)? I know you can have someone else on the lease and I know you can find a slumlord to rent to you. But are there any other ways? I heard something about giving a fake last 4 numbers of your social security number on the application and you basically come back non existant. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Rasan]

your best bet would be to have someone else on the lease..just my two cents..
the homie tried to do that ssn shit at a job..they have ways of finding out. ie: "oh sir, your ssn came up inconclusive or for somebody else, can we see a copy of your ssn card to verify we have the right one." busted! lol
all they want is someone with clean credit, i mean just no felonies and no evicitions..if you know someone like that and they trust you, put them on there my friend

 

[AC Transit]

Yeah most places will run your credit to see how you handle your finances. I don't think they'll consider you if your report comes up erroneous. Like Rasan said, your best bet is to get it in someone elses name. You could also try and negoiate with a bigger deposit and maybe putting down more rent as extra security.

 

[Rasan]

^^^yup
if you goin thru a big corporation, forget it..they won't negotiate..
but cuddie if you do make a deal..you deposit will be DOUBLE OR TRIPLE your rent..because they feel you are a risk...thats only if you use your ssn

 

[Mr. Nice Guy]

Most companies are only searching your financial records. If you give them your actually info, I bet less than half actually discover this legal info.

 

[Rasan]

^^not true bro...
don't know about all places..but some apartments nowadays, if you got a felony, they won't rent to you.. so i am assuming the apartment he is looking for has that stipulation

 

[Mr. Nice Guy]

yeah that is true of some places. I was speaking on my experience in real estate out here and most of the companies I worked with never did background checks past credit reports and a lot of people didn't even run credit checks. It tends to be related to the size of the company you are going through. The larger it is the more procedures the follow, vs small owner managed companies that often don't go to the trouble.

 

[Rasan]

only places that do that though are in the hood..but like you said, most places don't do background checks..and if that was the case..be alot of homeless people ha ha ha

 

[Notes]

right on ya'll. I appreciate the info. what Rasan said is what I figured but I thought there might be some way around the system that I didn't know about.

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

Go halfs on an already rented apartment.

 

[Sav Scorcese]

wtf does felonies have t do with renting. Ihave a few and that shit has never came up back when I was renting.

 

[WHITE DEVIL]

listen to rasan he's a smart dude

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