Rent Or Lease An Anonymous Place To Live



The best way is to rent a place without having to show your ID or have a credit report run. I have done this successfully several times. First, don’t be too fussy about where you will stay. You’re probably not going to be able to rent a nice place unless you pay all cash for the entire term of the lease. By paying cash, I mean you pay cash for the entire time you will be there. For example, let’s say the rent is $800 a month and they will agree to lease to you for six months and you will have to pay a deposit of $1000 as well. This would be $4800 for the six months rent plus $1000 deposit, which comes to $5800 total. If you are willing to pay cash up-front then maybe you can move in without showing ID or having a credit report run on you.

 

RECOMMENDATION:  Here is the process I have used successfully is to find a small property owner who needs the money.

 

Avoid the larger rental properties with professional management staff. Get the local classified advertisements on places for rent. Call on the phone and tell the property owner you have cash for the first month’s rent. If they say yes, that means they are probably going to have you give some limited personal information, not do a background check and give you the keys for the first month’s rent. If the property owner does not ask for ID, you can make up any name you want. It would probably be safe to give your real ID as there is not going to be a background check but your new landlord would know your real identity.

 

Craigslist is also a good place to search for rentals online because you can type in search criteria. Using Craigslist, type in “no credit check” in the search criteria and it will then show the places that don’t do a credit check. Calling them first is a good place to start.

 

Finding a place to rent in this manner may take some time or you might get lucky on the first call. Just keep at it until you find the right one. It’s best to do all the legwork over the telephone. This way, you don’t waste your time driving all over town talking to many people who won’t rent to you without ID and credit or background checks. Look for a mobile home you can rent weekly or a small house or townhouse, etc. Small apartment complexes that only have about 10 or less apartments or a duplex or 4-plex is more likely to have a private owner and no professional management. Put in the effort and you will eventually find the right landlord.

 

Another way is to become a professional house sitter. Check the local yellow pages or online for housesitting businesses. These service businesses provide a live-in house sitter to people to care for and protect their homes while they are away. You could end up living in a posh place FREE and anonymously as you don’t own or even rent the home you are living in. You may have to pass screening by the housesitting agency that sends you to live in someone else’s home. Heck, it’s even a great business idea for your new business. Why not start your own housesitting business and you run it from whatever home you are living in while being paid a fee to do so.

 

Two ways to rent a place anonymously and legally are:

 

Find a landlord that will accept cash or a money order and NOT ask for ID or a credit and background check.

 

Have someone else rent a place for you in his or her name.

 

Two ways to live in a home FREE and anonymously are:

 

Become a house sitter for a professional housesitting agency.

 

Advertise your services as a FREE house sitter.

 

Two ways to be PAID to live in a home anonymously would be:

 

Set up your own housesitting agency as a business and run your business from the home you are personally occupying for a paying client.

 

Advertise your services as a paid house sitter without starting a formal business to do this for other homes. In other words, you just want one home for you to occupy on a housesitting basis.

 

NOTE:  If the place you find to rent does not do a credit check or a background check then it would be okay to show your real ID. You would still be anonymous to the rest of the world. The only person knowing who you are is your new landlord.

 

NOTE:  If you are a female, you might just be able to tell the property owner your ex-husband has tried to kill you and he beat you up for years. Ask the landlord to NOT run a credit check on you because he knows all your information and he has pulled your credit report online before to track you. Tell them … “if they run your credit he might show up on your doorstep and finish what he promised to do … which is to kill you”.

 

IMPORTANT REMINDER:  I want to remind you that it is legal to go by another name. You have the right to go by whatever name you want to in the USA as long as you are not trying to defraud someone or escape the law. As long as you use your new name for everything, you have the right to go by any name of your choosing. Just make sure you memorize the name and don’t ever forget it. When your new landlord calls you by your new name, you don’t want to act like you don’t know who they are talking to. Women change their names often and everyone thinks it normal. Women usually change their name when they get married and often when they get divorced (not necessarily back to their maiden name but to any name they like). My ex-wife has used this process to change her name multiple times. My mother did not like her first name and preferred her middle name. As an adult, she simply chose to use her middle name by reversing it and using her first name as her middle name. My mother also changed her name when she married my father. I’ve used my cat’s name with the phone company just so my phone number would be anonymous without having to pay a monthly fee for an unlisted number. People use alternate names all the time just for convenience sake or for privacy reasons or even personal taste or bias. Telemarketers never use their Given Names nor do strippers. Waitresses and other service people often use a different name to protect their identity. Public figures such as famous authors and actors use Pen Names or Stage Names. People use alternate names all the time because it is prudent to do so and we rarely think of it as being sinister or illegal.