Only the IRS counts tips as wages. Everyone else on earth goes by your hourly pay.
if they are reported to the IRS, then yes they should count.
It should count. When I worked restaurants, apartment managers allowed me to use bank account statements showing that I had a certain amount of money in the bank each month. If you deposit your tips into a bank account, you can try to offer this.
This is not universal. Some landlords count tips & some don't. It is not illegal to refuse to count that as qualifying income. The problem is that the amount you get in tips varies vastly from month to month so this is not an amount they can accurately predict. They have every right to only count your hourly pay if they so choose.
They count. You need to show your income tax returns to prove income, not paychecks.
Tips count as wages as long as you claim them on your income tax return.
Tips are fragile. They could go up one month and down the next month.Tips are not a sure income. Most landlords might not accept your tips as proven income and only accept your hourly wages as income.
The IRS is the only agency that accept tips a wage earnings. Of course they have an ulterior motive in doing this.
You would need to find a landlord or property manager that would accept your tips as income.
I hope this has been of some benefit to you, good luck.
"FIGHT ON"
The taxman would count them if you earned enough to pay tax, so I'd say that the landlord is on shaky legal ground.
Odd.
I've seen tipped employees buy houses even when a majority of their taxable income is from tips.
Find a new place.
My boyfriend and I applied for an apartment, they asked that we make 2.4 times the amount of rent per month, and we make well above that. Then the landlord called me to tell me that our wages didn't meet the 2.4x minimum because they don't count tips. I offered to give her months worth of paystubs but she said they wouldn't take it. So how are servers who's whole income is based tips supposed to get an apartment. Is this something most landlords practice ? And we both report our tips so they do show up on our paystubs as gross income.
