Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open.

My tenant wants to pay rent through their company: Should this raise a red flag?
The company that's apparently going to pay this rent wants to treat it as a business expense.  They are asking for your SSN because they expect to issue a 1099-MISC. (They probably gave you a Form W-9? It's not mandatory but it's common to request a taxpayer ID on this form.) There are a couple of issues at play here: