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>> Just ask the utility companies how much electricity and water are being used. No spying required. How will this be difficult to fake? Just run timers on som

• luckylion 7y ago
  To get the perfect fake, just hire somebody to live in your vacant house! Next up: captchas to turn on the stove. "We need to make sure you're a human that wants to prepare food and not just a weird property owner that wants to pretend that somebody lives here".
  • sundaeofshock 7y ago
    Interesting idea. I bet you might even find someone who would be willing to pay you to live there. Crazy idea, I’m sure…
• onion2k 7y ago
  How will this be difficult to fake? Very easy, but it'd be tax evasion which is a serious crime. Most taxes are pretty trivial to evade if you put some thought in to it. Very few people bother because the reward doesn't outweigh the risk. Saving a few tens of thousands of dollars a year isn't worthwhile if the penalty for being found out is losing everything you saved and years in prison. It's actually one of the few places in criminal law where the penalty actually works as a deterrent.