Genuine applicant
Everything reconciles. Should pass cleanly.
Altered pay stub
Real stub, edited income. The common case.
Fabricated identity
Generated documents, thin history.
Known to the network
Caught at another operator last month.
| Portfolio | Applications / yr | Est. fraudulent (1 in 8) | Avoidable exposure |
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Sources: NMHC 2024 Pulse Survey — 93.3% of operators experienced fraud; 84.3% saw falsified pay stubs; large operators write off an average of $4.2M in bad debt annually, roughly 24.5% of it fraud-attributable; 23.8% of eviction filings trace to fraudulent applications. Snappt's published analysis puts altered documents at roughly 1 in 8 applications and the average eviction at $7,685.