I would be very careful their are alot of scams.

They are trying to scam the school district - or at least they admitted so to you.

She was a professional scam artist and found an opportunity to steal due to my failure to have pictures.The most important thing is to do your own screening.

Or, it could be some sort of scam-- this would void airbnb's insurance they cover us with, blah blah.My second reaction...

It is also possible it is a scam, so be careful.

Or was she scammed?  

It's terrible they were apparently scammed, but you shouldn't have to pay for their mistake either.

Candidate selection is extremely important otherwise you end up with the old scam of churning candidates destined to fail.

Otherwise every person could just claim every animal is a "companion", but I'm sure they are not.There are problems with online "doctors" who claim to give prescriptions or recommendations for companion animals to whoever pays for one, however, these are mostly scams, and I don't think landlords actually are required to accept their fake "prescriptions" if they don't actually have a proven doctor/patient relationship.

There is nothing in it for you and if she is running a scam she will be in the property for a lot longer than a few months.