Tenant screening info needed

[Debasish Bhattacharjee]

Hi Experts,

I have posted my rental listing in Northern California /Bay Area location using zillow and avail.co. Both has tenant screening and I posted in my listing clearly to apply first followed by touring after shortlisting potential prospects. 7 days listed, 50 application till now, 7+ applicant are prospects, 4 weeks I have before tour, as of today there are 7 homes available in the market for roughly same moving date (first week of July).

Given this above statistics, there are few applicants they are personally emailing me. 

Type 1 category: their request is to meet me in person, then look at the property, if they like then they submit the application. 

Type 2 category: They are hesitant to submit application through zillow, instead they want to provide me W2s , credit report in person to me. 

Should I not consider those applicant since touring is only available after a month and by that time who knows the shortlisted ones as of today might have changed their plans?

I don't want to loose those applicants who doesn't want to apply through zillow. What should I do? Should I take their document for review or should I always go through zillow? If they provide recent credit report will it not work? Need some input here.

Thanks

-Debasish