Fha mortgage co-signer question

Here's the question...can you get an FHA mortgage for a multi-family home with a cosigener. my fiance and i will be the buyers and living in the home, my mother is the cosigner but in no way connected to the property other than helping us in getting funding (ie the mortgage)Initially, our loan officer said it was allowed but now he is saying it is not. he is saying we will have to basically "lie" on our application and state the following:-that my mother will be occupying one of the units in the home we are buying-that that will be her primary residence-that she is going to sell her current homeall this is of course just going to be on paper. any comments on this situation...the whole situation just isn't sitting well with us thank you... by terribleturtle from Kent, Maryland. Oct 5th 2009 Reply