What are the chances of getting an apartment if two people on the?
If two of the prospective tenants can qualify for the lease without counting the income of the third, they can get the apartment as the two lessees. Then, if they wish, they can add the third person as a resident of the property. ( in fact, the landlord must be notified of any Resident that is not already aware of is lessee.) A resident who is not a lessee has no financial responsibility to the landlord, but is protected from eviction without cause. Just as in the case of the two qualified lessees, the resident can only be evicted by a judge's order, which the landlord, and only the landlord, may request by filing a complaint with the court citing violation of lease or law and following the eviction process in strict compliance with the state's landlord tenant law. If the third party's income is required to meet the minimum income to qualify for the lease, then unless you can get a cosigner, all three must apply. In most cases, all three of the individuals would benefit by having all three of them on the lease, anyway. The 2 qualified tenants would probably prefer that the third roommate has all legal and financial responsibilities and all the potential penalties, that they do. That would include incentive to comply with the lease in every way, pay his or her share of the rent in full on time every month, take care of the property while they're in residence, do his/her share of the cleaning when they vacate the premises in order to get their deposit refund, and stay in residence until the lease expires so that the other two are not stuck paying the rent by themselves after the third roommate leaves. The tenant with the eviction will benefit from being on the lease by sharing it with the two roommates who, at least one would presume, will always pay the rent in full, take care of the property, and leave it clean so as to qualify for refund of deposit - earning a glowing rental history and landlord reference that would be shared by the third party and put him or her on the path to rental history and credit redemption. All three should be as sure as one can be that they trust the other two to live up to their financial and legal responsibilities in regard to the rent and the lease in every way and to be a reasonably pleasant and accommodating roommate to live with because splitting up could be slightly more difficult than the norm, and if the third party is not on the lease, therefore not legally responsible, yet causes problems for the 2 who are, they can't legally evict him by themselves, Your prospective landlord can tell you how much income it takes to qualify. If you need all three parties income, you can also ask the landlord if he would accept you if 1 person has an eviction, but the other two have good credit and rental history, and the combined income from all 3 of you meets or exceeds the standard. Different companies and different individual landlords have different standards. In my experience, some landlords reject anything hinting at the word eviction. Other landlords, particularly small investor individual landlords, would not care if you have the income, two of you show a history of being financially responsible, and none of you show any serious negatives in your records except for the one eviction which may well have been for unavoidable circumstances and now no longer something that is likely to happen at all. I hope this works out so that you all live together happily ever after. Good luck!