I have already replaced her electric stove with a gas one basically because she didn’t like the way it cooked I put an oven thermometer inside it and it was calibrated perfectly but she said it wasn’t baking properly.

You don't want it smelling like fish or whatever else other people cook. 

My key take away here, as mentioned by @Julie McCoy, @Ethan Cooke, @William Leahy is that bringing up the "review" word in the communication in the right way is not bad.

We’re packing up most of our clothing and valuables, but leaving the place furnished along with kitchen/cooking equipment. 

Her edge for me to consider her over others is that she can offer higher and stable rent, but I need to verify if her higher rent is including utilities ASAP; she asked me to increase my asking rent to what she’s allowed from section 8 if I can provide her a cooking stove, and to install central air which I’m considering anyway.And what should I tell my other turned down qualifying applicant without any discriminating element that I might not be aware of if they ask for the specific reason after I’d told them that I’d already chosen a financially better qualifying tenant over them?

It's called networking and it works legally, and wonderfully.Let me know if you have further questions, or would require assistance.Thanks and Best Regards,Scott Cook

Also back in the day, a lender who got obviously cooked numbers would have declined the loan.

Opportunities will present themselves.Let me also add, FWIW, that I also have a good half acre reserved should I ever need to grow vegetables.

However, as I said before it is smart taking extra care when you go behind other people's closed doors.Typerider - fyi, baseball bat is about all you're allowed in the People's Republic of Cook County.

Scott Cook (trustone on BP) is someone to talk to on these forums, he seems to have experience in college rentals, and has said that rentals within a mile of campus do very well.