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Nicholas Jose
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Need help with my tenant rejection letter

Nicholas Jose
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Good evening, BP.

I'm writing my Tenant Rejection Letter and found some reasons online as to why a tenant is denied their application. So far, I have:

  1. Application incomplete
  2. Application contains false information
  3. Delinquent rent
  4. Delinquent credit obligations
  5. Insufficient credit file
  6. Insufficient credit references
  7. Insufficient employment record
  8. Insufficient landlord details
  9. Insufficient references
  10. Temporary or irregular employment
  11. Insufficient rental history
  12. Insufficient income for amount of credit requested
  13. No credit file
  14. No employment record
  15. No rental history
  16. Record of evictions
  17. Record of bankruptcy, foreclosure, or repossession
  18. Record of excessive or overdue debts and obligations
  19. Temporary residence
  20. Low credit score
  21. Unable to verify credit references
  22. Unable to verify employment
  23. Unable to verify income
  24. Unable to verify rental history
  25. Negative report from previous landlord
  26. Negative report from employer
  27. Owner chose another applicant
  28. Other: _____________________

I feel that the more reasons I have, the better off I'll be; however, I could significantly cut this list down by combining two items into one. For example, instead of having

    1. Insufficient credit file
    2. Insufficient credit references

I could just say

  1. Insufficient credit file or references

But then again, I'd also like to be as specific as possible so as to leave no ambiguities. The tenant could question what "references" in the above statement means: credit references or people references?

Also, my tenant rejection letter is two pages long. Am I just thinking too much about this?

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