Sixth, I do not tolerate tenants that reject my communication.

Your rejected $290k offer would have yielded 8.85% Cap rate.I don't know your market, but pretty much everywhere in the whole country, it's getting harder and harder to find 8 caps.

It was very rare that they qualified with this criteria making it easy to reject their applications.

A few of the units around me dropped their prices, but even then they wound up renting to people that I rejected due to any number of reasons, so the season has definitely thinned the pool of good prospects.My units show well and are all updated, but I have fairly high criteria (650+ credit, non smoker, 3x rent) so it may also be a factor.

To not make a big deal and lose rapport, i would thank them but tell them anything in the future will be rejected per the lease. 

Seller wishes she could refi her balloon loan, but she can't - 3 rejections and counting.

They have an online portal and I can see anything that comes up, and can then 'Approve' or 'Reject' whatever the issue is.

Certified with signature is best to make sure they received it (but they can also reject it).

I don't know about Georgia but in Texas the law says if a landlord does not contact an applicant within 1 week after they turn in the application then that means they were officially rejected.

@Brian SinclairI don't know if it fits this low-priced deal is a good fit butI like joint ventures with sellers where 70% of ARV is just too low, so the seller always rejects itSo on alternative is to do a joint venture with the seller, give a note with no payments for four months, now you're on title, you fix it, then resell it, and pay off their note when it resellsExample, $200,000 house, 20,000 in repairs, 70% of ARV minus repairs is 120,000 net to sellerFor the joint venture, figure 10% for resale costs or $20,000, add in $20,000 repair bill, add in $2000 in private lender interest, and a joint venture fee of $10,000 for the real estate investorThis is a better result for the seller, netting the seller $148,000