Applicants & showing prospects who won’t take “No” for an answer

[Kimberly H.]

Wondering if anyone else runs into this where people refused for showings or had applications rejected keep attempting to get a showing/ get the home rented??

We are not renting the Taj Mahal for $1/month here, are not the only game in town by a long shot, and we are not illegally discriminating.

The one going on right now initially called saying her credit was messed up due to divorce…sounded like her score was right at our threshold ... Found an address for a rental on her credit report that she skipped on her application. Asked her about the address twice, she evaded answering, she had also exaggerated her income by $10,000, no previous landlord to contact, current landlord selling... Rejected application. Now she is calling/texting/emailing every contact for us, now saying her 80yr old dad (she is mid 40’s) can cosign and emailing his credit report, drivers license, trying to set up two half hour showings to see the home again tonight…

Last time was a felon (for several things like weapons and bodily harm) who for MONTHS was trying to see a house we were attempting to get rented during a Chicago winter. Leaving notes at the house, trying to set up showings under the girlfriends name …they finally after months of this had an agent show it to them, which I only know because they posted pictures on FB saying, “Our new home” and another applicant who happened to be FB friends saw the pictures and was all upset about it and contacted us! Fortunately it all ended because we got it rented right after that.

I don’t tell people to get lost for fear they will take out their crazy on me or the house. You would think they would just get tired of being ignored and move on!!