Scammers or not ?

Some are straight up scammers.

Just hope you avoid going there with the tenant in the suit and tie who is a professional scammer. 

I gladly welcome real service dogs, just not the scammers with baby pits...)

I have just started in this field and I find the scammers rampant and perplexed about how many people fall for this BS.  

AVOID Craigslist....full of scammers and low quality tire kickers...Generalities....Low interest/contact- bad advertisement or you are way out of line on priceHigh contact but no followup after initial contact- you aren't prescreening- EVERYONE contacts you and then when you tell them your criteria, they bail- make sure your criteria is in your ad since its prescreens the people that are not qualified day 1Lots of contact, lots of showings, but no applicants- you are overpriced or in a bad areaThese are all general principles and not set in stoneDitch the single appointments.....as you have found, lots of no shows and a huge waste of time.

This shocked me, as normally if I list something for sale on the internet (like say an old piece of furniture for sale) it seems like the ratio of scammers and weirdos to legitimate buyers is about 10 to 1, that did not appear to be the case for the rental which was a nice surprise ... 

Hypothetical question for all you stiffers out there: I am licensed and insured and if I did this work and left, then got an upset call from you, came back and this was the scenario.. how do I know you're not a scammer and moved your appliances into the locked garage in the back and want new ones off my insurance for your unit next door?

I say that because I want to retain even the slightest amount of faith that no one is actually that stupid to pick Jon Doe as a scammer name.

This is low enough so I don't get "emotional support" scammers that just don't want to pay extra and high enough to act as "insurance" to cover losses from repairs for an irresponsible owner.