Rental Fraud Is Rising— What Multifamily Operators and Investors Must Know

About This Episode

Rental application fraud is one of the biggest hidden risks in multifamily, quietly eroding NOI, driving bad debt, and pressuring DSCR. In this episode, John Makarewicz explains how fraud has evolved from simple fake pay stubs into sophisticated schemes involving synthetic identities, doctored financials, and professional tenants—and walks through the layered defense framework used at Faris Capital Partners to protect assets and investor returns.

What You’ll Learn:

✔ Why rental fraud is rising—and why nearly all operators are now affected

✔ The most common fraud tactics impacting multifamily properties today

✔ How fraud damages NOI, DSCR, and economic occupancy

✔ The step-by-step screening, verification, and payment controls used to reduce risk

✔ The KPIs investors should ask operators to track and report

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