(we charge a $30 per adult aps fee and this helps to get rid of the flakes right away)  2, If the above verification is done to your satisfaction is done than, you request a Nonrefundable holding deposit in the form of cash, cashier's check, or money order. 

He couldn't come up to look at rentals, so he had a local adult family friend who was looking at rentals for him.So, as I started showing the unit to the family friend, he took out his smart phone and called the law student using Skype. 

Can we grow back up and go back to being adults now? 

A Section 8 family with one adult and 8 children?

I got was I said I wanted for it, and I really did get the one perfect buyer out there for my unit.Plus, come on,  You're an adult who made a decision knowing that you might NOT end up with a bidding war.  

I'm planning on making an amendment to her lease with her "guest" on it stating liability and an increase of $30 per month to cover the utilities I cover for another adult.

If the lease only states that 1 adult is going to be living in the unit, you may have grounds to evict her for having more people live in the unit than there are on the lease.

I've been in apartments, rental houses and condos all my adult life and I have NEVER bought a shower curtain rod - that was always provided for me and I buy the liner and curtains and rings.  

Some states have a requirement that only so many unrelated adults can live in a unit, etc.If you put your criteria in the ad, nobody can later say you made up criteria because they were ___________________.  

Some states require landlords to look at the total income of the tenants, like CA, but others allow landlords to require that each adult can pay the entire rent on their own (3X the rent, etc.).So, it just depends.