Do both husband and wife have to sign house rental lease?

don't want to have to give out both our info, do both of us have to apply to rent a house? Or can my husband be sole renter, with me and two kids also living there?|||Most companies/landlords will require all adults who will reside in the property to be parties to the lease. The reasons are pretty straightforward:





1) They want to be able to know who they're putting in the property in case something happens and they're left with one party of the original two. Divorce for example.





2) They want to know who they're doing business with. Spouses very frequently have completely separate credit histories. If one spouse is an excellent risk and the other a poor risk, the landlord has a right to know since they could potentially end up doing business with the poor risk tenant (see #1)





3) The parties to the lease have all rights under the lease such as access and can interact with the landlord/manager. For example, if the signer of the lease is out of town and a key is lost, technically the agent/owner doesn't have to provide a key or access to someone who isn't a party to the lease.





The exception to all this would be where a landlord or agent classifies tenants into categories as either "tenants" or "occupants". Most managers in my experience don't do this - but it may be common in other areas. "Tenants" have all rights AND responsibilities under the lease - meaning they're the parties who handle payment and are primary to the lease contract. "Occupants" are essentially sub-tenants or sub-letters who have limited or no responsibility to pay or for damage and are acknowledged by the landlord only for purposes of access.





You can certainly ask the landlord/manager if you must both apply - but if it is their policy and practice that you do, they're entitled to make that request. I would not recommend lying about the situation as one answer suggests. Good luck!|||Landlords would prefer for both husband and wife to sign BUT it would be very possible for only the husband to sign. The kids would not be a problem as long as they are under 21. Let me give you some tips:





It's either the wife has bad credit or NO credit at all that's why she doesn't want to sign. But that would not be a problem.





Here are some tips on how to exempt the wife from the lease (Hope some of them would work out for you):





a.) tell them that the wife would be going out of the country.


b.) tell them that the wife would not be staying at the place.


c.) simply tell them that you do not want her on the lease.





Hope you guys could work this out.|||If your husband has the finances and good enough credit , yes, it can be done using only his information and you and the children will be added as occupying tenants to the lease.|||Most landlords require that all adults living in the rental sign the lease so that all are equally responsible for the rent.|||Not sure, that would be up to the landlord.|||yes if you are really and truly married ..