Our mortgage is $2600 month. My wife has a much better paying job than me. I make $2200 a month after taxes/deductions. She is currently going through cancer treatments and although everything is looking positive it really got me thinking about what the hell does life look like for my family if something happens to my wife?

I've had the same bus driving job for 23 years. I'm undereducated. A 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment is $1600 month here. I don't know how I'd ever be able to take care of myself and two kids.

They want us to have 80k+ in school debt so you can be allowed to have mortgage debt or rent and own nothing. I don't know where I'm going with this but I'm just bummed out about life right now.

And then you get bankrupted by the excorbitant creative cloud license costs.

it is FUCKING INSANE that apartments get to ask for all sorts of invasive shit like this and that's just fine. yeah god forbid you take on any risk, we're only committing to fucking thousands a month, fuck you.

Mandatory "use GIMP: is free and open source" comment

They wanted to DNA test my dog and keep his biometric data on file as part of the terms of the last lease I was looking at.

I uhh, didn't fucking sign. The neofeudalist movement is for real.

You don't even need photoshop. Just use the inspect function in your browser and edit the values directly in the HTML. Free and much easier to not fuck up the formatting.

You don't need adobe.

F12, and modify the html.

Slap a few extra zeroes and take a screenshot.

Nah, no need for Adobe. Just use https://photopea.com

Get pirated adobe or use gimp

Renting is fucked. Some people probably know about this site but just fyi https://ratethelandlord.org/

No one going to bring up the fact that adobe is an anagram of abode?

They got their abode with adobe! This is no coincidence! I'm inclined to say this goes all the way to the top!

correction, and steal Adobe.

Some armchair rental lawyers in this thread.

fraud is pretty rad 😎

Meanwhile Adobe: "Hello, I like money!"

Step 1: File articles of incorporation for an LLC. Step 2: Open bank account for your new business. Step 3: Write checks to yourself from said business. Step 4: Tell future landlord that you're "self employed." Step 5: File dissolution of LLC -or- make sure to pay any annual franchise taxes, depending on your state, if you decide to keep it active.

It might work for a small time landlord, but larger real estate agencies have other ways to check your income.

Gimp or photopea will do the trick also

I'm all in to say that the situation to get an appartement is out of control but isn't that fraud / counterfeit?