You get guaranteed rent, and it’s generally in high demand—I’ve had instances where even when I explicitly say I’m not accepting Section 8, the inquiries just keep coming in.

I have sent an inquiry to message select owners when I wanted to reach them.

.- If you are NOT getting a lot of inquiries & showings, you do NOT want to add roadblocks!

Start a public records inquiry at the local/county level.

The CL mobile app is helpful for this.Last inquiry from a CL ad was a mom - sounded stressed as dealing with the logistic nightmare of relocating her family across county.

Make sure that they only check credit once (or soft inquiries) to make sure you are not hit with 10 different hard inquiries all at once.

I'd attack the credit report :) 1) lower (pay down) whatever accounts have a high utilization percentage 2) contact each of 3 major consumer credit agencies and get a free report, then dispute every hard inquiry that is *NOT* associated with an open account 3) call the credit cards you already have established and ask for a credit line increase -- often can be done online and they do not verify income, hint hint. 

You don't necessary need to get a pre approval and have a hard inquiry.

So email them if it’s a conversation or text that says “confirming our conversation you have rejected our inquiry and to having an HVAC technician review the master bedroom”.

His unit got more attention and inquiries, but funny enough, the renter he ended up signing had found his original free listing weeks earlier and only called back because the timing was right.