renting questions

[TaraLee4]

DBF and I are currently scouting out apartment complexes near my grandmother to move into in the fall.

We currently rent an apartment from his father/sister. Someone mentioned to me at work today that we could have a harder time with a company looking for rental history because we rent from his family.

We've lived here for almost 2 years, we pay rent and utilities (the utilities are all in our name) and DBF's father and sister would be willing to do pretty much whatever to prove that we pay rent.

Has anyone gone through this and maybe shed some light on it? I've emailed the Leasing agent i've been talking to at our first choice complex, but she's not going to respond at 12:30am.

 

[Handbag Lady]

DBF and I are currently scouting out apartment complexes near my grandmother to move into in the fall.

We currently rent an apartment from his father/sister. Someone mentioned to me at work today that we could have a harder time with a company looking for rental history because we rent from his family.

We've lived here for almost 2 years, we pay rent and utilities (the utilities are all in our name) and DBF's father and sister would be willing to do pretty much whatever to prove that we pay rent.

Has anyone gone through this and maybe shed some light on it? I've emailed the Leasing agent i've been talking to at our first choice complex, but she's not going to respond at 12:30am.

I don't think it matters since you can show you've paid rent for two years. Plus, the utilities...

And do they need to know it is his family, anyway?

 

[klacey1]

I don't think it'll matter at all-- they don't have to know it's family. That you paid utilities/rent is all they really want to know.

 

[barkley]

if you've paid your current rent by check you could see if it would help your application if you provided copies of the checks to show they were paid timely (most banks on-line systems can accommodate printing these up).

you can get a statement from the utility company showing you timely paid those.

there was a period of time after we sold our former home that we needed to rent. we had no rental history going back 16 years (and the landlords we had back then are no longer in buisness). we ended up providing statements of things we paid monthly (mortgage, utilities, car payment...) to show a history of timely payments.

 

[smilie]

I don't think it would be a problem either. Most places are usually interested in the credit check more than the history of rentals. At least the ones I've had experience with.

 

[Wonders10]

I agree...shouldn't matter at all as long as you can show you paid for the rent. Even so, when I moved out after grad school, I had never lived on my own, paid rent or had a long term full time job (I was a full time student for 3 years). I had just gotten hired at my new job, but wasn't going to start for a few weeks, and all the apartment people wanted to see was proof of employment and they did a credit check (which wasn't an issue for me).

Good luck!