If accepted then you gotta hope your financing doesn't take too long or fall apart altogether, and then you have to pray your contractor does a swell job cause that is about as good as a coin flip, and then you need to make a wish that your exit is one timely and two at the price you suspected.Bottom line is, it is hard to set up a network built with pieces from 3 - 4 different verticals within the industry. 

Anything similar to a NYC subway station at 100 degrees or in the tornado zone makes me question the requestor.But this is a good question.

Your options in this case are to:Decline their application.Accept them without references and take the risk, assuming everything else about them is stellar.Require a co-signer.Require an additional security deposit if that is allowed in your specific state.The option many landlords choose is No. 2: Accept them without references, asking for an additional security deposit.

I’ve looked at other markets but nothing I have found yet compares in appreciation and to a lesser degree the amount in rent that I can charge.

To what degree is a wild card.  

A degree is something not only to fall back on, but also gives you skills.

And worse, this bank does not even accept Zelle.

@Joshua Perelli so only a crazy person would accept being a LAIC for an owner self managing. 

If so, have them hold the builder to the fire, that is not acceptable for a brand new home and that should be on them to fix that and anything else.

Also, if you accepted full October rent, its unlikely you can claim they need to leave before the end of the month.