Apartment lease income question?

[Anonymous]

I am just under the 3x income requirement for my apartment rental application, however if I add in my self employment as secondary supplement income along with my salary job it would bring me where I need to be. My past 2 years of tax return from Schedule C self employed are different amounts, so how do they determine if that satisfies the income requirement? Do they take the lower of the 2 years to safely say I can make X amount, or do they take the average earnings from both years combined?

[josephinelcajon]

I would somehow explain that you have been greatly affected in both jobs by COVID and include as much income as possible. I would say I use to make X but sense COVID I make X BUT anticipate going back to pre COVID very soon and already see a increase!