Some are ok with it; some have occasionally insisted they be home if we bring people by, then manage to never be available on the days needed.

To protect myself, I'm thinking about insisting on running a criminal background check on every person who will be living in the unit, not just the person signing the lease.

Also, I insist on using professional inbound telemarketers, not VA's. 

I insist on meeting the pet.  

I too think it’s pretty ironic that some companies push for all this tech and such but then insist on making their employees work in an office.

Insist on renter's insurance.

And then we panic when things inevitably slow down and insist on cutting then.

;-)Having said that, I do know a fellow rental owner who insists that everyone staying at his house is on the lease, and that the lease is signed by everyone.

She insists it is from a previous tenant and I have never noticed a cat there during her tenancy.First question: is this plausible?

I'm an agent and investor in the Tampa Bay market that buys property and then sells them to rehabbers.I have watched rehabber after rehabber turn down great opportunities simply because they don't understand our market, and insist on some irrelevant formula they learned in a course or used maybe even used successfully years ago.