This is a business.Don't go instantly to the nuclear option by calling the cops or threatening eviction.

But, you will easily get 10 inquiries who would never be acceptable to 1 that "might" be.I don't know if you've ever received resumes for a job.  

That's the perfect solution, in my opinion.But, expecting people to wait to buy a home when their lease ends, or to not send out resumes to get a great job somewhere else, or to apply to grad school somewhere else, etc., - is just not realistic.  

If you want to get a better sense of the prospective tenants' responsibility as pet owner, ask them to submit a pet resume.

Family is Family, And Business is Business, And the two shall never mix, Especially those of us who are immigrants where our culture depicts that your extended extended extended family are as important as your nuclear family.   

Looking back, I think a few things I did right (at first by lucky accident, and later by deliberate planning) made this possible:1)I timed my appreciation plays very well ... not that I nailed the absolute bottom of the market upon purchase (though I have), but like horse-shoes, hand grenades, and nuclear warfare, close is sometimes good enough.

You might also consider creating a pet resume.

I have PM put them in so they run the background SS and stuff... so I am not at Risk like @Steve Vaughan states.were I run up stream is when they call and its a real cold winter and they can't afford heat so I waive too months rent until it warms.. up .. that made me feel good .. but then on the third month when they were suppose to resume paying they just up and left  LOL.. then when I get really frustrated with these folks I just post on BP I have free duplex and I just give the sucker away.. that ends that tenant issue... :)although I can be that landlord as well..

Originally posted by @Joe Cummings:Solar panels and wind power are nothing but marketing and corporate welfare based on junk science.Renewables now create more energy in the US than nuclear power.

absent some other explanation.always do put BY APPOINTMENT ONLY in my online ads but now more than ever, folks will show up at the door, knocking and everything, some even help themselves to- after knocking -walk into the driveway and around the whole premises 'inspecting' the whole building even if its just one unit within.totally understand scoping out a neighborhood, street, building, and yard before making an appointment but find ppl who just totally ignore whats written in the listing and instead will show up and rather know than call from their cell, inexcusable. maybe a decade or two ago when ppl hardly ever had car phones let alone cell phones it would be understandable but just dont get how applicants expect to be taken seriously while totally being blind to such simple 3 words.then on the flipside, there is the parallel to the story - where the person who calls an employer and/or walks in without appointment despite the ad clearly stating resumes only no calls no walk in applications available, etc - gets the job.