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Kimberly H.
  • Residential Real Estate Broker
  • Chicago Suburbs, IL
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To those use "INCOMPLETE" to reject...what would you do??

Kimberly H.
  • Residential Real Estate Broker
  • Chicago Suburbs, IL
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So, to those who say they just use an application being incomplete as a way to reject an applicant you don’t want...doesn't that anger people A LOT that you didn't give them a chance to complete the application?

I have a couple where only the man applied so far. So, it’s incomplete since no wife application, plus he sent no paystubs. It’s been 3 days like that and finally today he just asked for status on the application.

The wife is a newly minted lawyer with a many years at her firm as a clerk and from pictures just looks like a difficult person. Plus when she tried to schedule a showing covered up her entire DL except for her name, when I said I needed to see the whole thing, it was her husband who scheduled the showing. They are not in a protected class.

I’m also willing to bet that they lied about saying “no pets” on their application since the wife’s main FB picture shows 2 pets. And the husband had some significant criminal issues in his 20’s and 30’s, 20 years ago now. So, not the kind of people I want to anger. She may get all lawyerly and say I can’t prove those are her pets, or claim they are service animals or whatever. He admitted to smoking outside on the application, but our criteria doesn’t say no smoking (so people don’t see that and lie). Plus they need to move ASAP, haven’t been where they are a year so probably breaking the lease…

I don’t like saying that we are going with someone else when I don't have anyone else good (have two other bad applications) and I really want to do a price drop right now.

What would you do???

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