Tons of people asking to see an apartment, how to handle this?

[Cody F.]

We have an apartment available, but there's about 1 in 10 applicants that ask to see it before applying. I don't want to drive all the way there just to show the apartment to someone who I'd never rent to anyway.

How do other landlords and property managers deal with this?

We live 30 minutes away and self manage the property because we have maintenance and security covered.

I'm only there a couple days a week right now. Long term we plan on being more remote so we'll probably hire a leasing agent for these instances but I would still not want to waste resources on meeting with people who we would never rent to anyway.