Here's the scenario - military applicant with 6x rent in verifiable income, no evictions, no criminal record, decent credit with high balances and a 2 late payments in the last year, nothing currently late, waiting on previous landlord  rental history verification. 

In the rare cases when a holding fee and forms are received for more than one tenant simultaneously or nearly so (in general, within the same business day), xxxxxx will reserve the property for the strongest applicant based on credit score, income, employment, criminal background, and rental history._____________________________________________ ______________Applicant’ s Signature Date_____________________________________________ ______________Applicant’ s Signature Date_____________________________________________ ______________ Representative Signature Date

More important is the credit history, employment history, and criminal history.

No criminal or eviction backgrounds on either.  

The advice you already received to engage an attorney is something you should follow.Writing checks on a closed account is a criminal offense - see if the county will prosecute this tenant.What sort of screening process did you use on this tenant before you let this tenant move in?

You need physical solid proof or a criminal complaint.

I will take it as a bigger brother/sister giving good advise to his younger brother and take it as a learning experience and not take offence.

You can save money on the reports by doing the criminal check yourself; only takes 60 seconds.

It is somewhat known for drug deals, criminals, domestic violence, and we believe it is infested with bed bugs.

Wow so she admitted to you collusion and fraud with the appraiser that the appraisal can be FIXED if needed to make the sale happen.I am sure a buyer would not want to overpay for a property neither would a lender want to make a loan based off of a fraudulent appraisal.It's people like this that give the industry a bad name.If this broker/agent is indeed doing this they should lose their license and face criminal conviction.