Need Help Renting a Single Family House

[Brad D.]

Bought a house for 31k, put about 3k into it, now trying to rent it for 775more with pet. It may be slightly high. Have had a ton of interest, calls, but it's not rented yet.

The problems I'm running into are:
1. Everyone calls (have sign and craigslist ad) and immediately wants to see the house. There are literlally endless calls, impossible to field them all. I try to pre screen regarding rental history, income but they still say whatever to see it until I find out later they have bad rental history , income. What should I say on phone to better pre screen?

2. The people who want to rent it aren't qualified due to income/rental history and the people who are qualified don't want to rent it, this means I should lower price?

3. Even after I tell people what I'm looking looking for when they see it, they fill out an appication, sometimes listing only the amount of the rent as monthly income. I'm going to hopefully remedy this by using MySmartMove now which charges $25 (have been allowing people to fill out applications for free previously).

4. What criteria are good and legal that I should tell people I use to better find a renter for this single family house? Can I say "must have no evictions in 5 years, annual income that is 70x monthly rent, etc? I definitely want to be up front so everyone doesn't spend the money on smartmove and then become upset they didn't get the place.

5. When people are rejected, do I need to call them and tell them they are rejected and why, or can I say when they fill out mysmartmove they'll only be contacted if they are chosen to be the renter?

6. Any other suggestions on criteria to use to help this process?