Oh, you'd better believe I have an air tight holding deposit he signed and I have a copy of my version of the receipt. 

 $100 off the rent would be acceptable.Love,YouOr some version of that.  

A SFH I own was being re-prepped to re-rent and was being advertised by the PM company.Who, as is ever increasingly more evident, apparently do whatever they want, often ignoring what I tell them to do, and then if it's ever questioned they have a version of The Story which makes it all my fault.

Sort of a pet-friendly landlord's version of the Welcome Wagon!

The instant online version isn't good enough to get a mortgage with in most cases, but it'll be something that isn't trivially easy to fake.

So the quick version of this is:My mom moved from the area (sf bay area to so-cal) and kept her house here.

My point it, there might be another side to the story and now that those 'squatters' may be inconvenient to the tenant, she might be telling you her version, to manipulate into doing what she wants you to do. 

So of course your going to get their version or slant..

You’ve got a lot of folks from the suburbs coming in, expecting a bleached-clean version of a city where everything’s clean and the streets are free of any loiterers.

This reminds me of the episode of the British version of The Office when they are talking about how postage stamps are legal tender.