Then pre-screen all applications and discard the ones that do not meet minimum requirements.

How long do I have to keep the personal items before I can discard them if he does not return?  

Take what you can from something ( a book life music etc ) and use that as brain fuel apply your life and the bigger picture and move the best way possible always expanding don't discard something that someone gives just because they stop talking about what " you" were expecting.

The court discarded the choice of law clause since not a resident of NV and applied a 10 year look back, and also created a new legal standard called "reasonably foreseeable creditors."

So many investors make blind offers only to pick and choose, and then discard the rest.

So many investors make blind offers only to pick and choose, and then discard the rest.

They indicated it was the result of a discarded cigarette. 

I basely discard these because, I just don't know what to do with them.

Honestly, how many times does communism need to fail (usually with massive amounts of bloodshed before the inevitable collapse) before this idea can just be permanently discarded???

Agreed with above- in many markets of the Bay Area, they'll just discard your offer.