I use cap to communicate with brokers the ballpark I am looking for.  

Professional and great communicators from our experience.Rental licenses are expensive in the city limits, around $2,500 for a student rental, a bit less for a single family.

I have had great success in appealing to the sellers emotions of solving a problem for them.

You obviously had a reason for saying no pets originally, don't base your decision on emotions, make a sound business decision.  

Learn and you may have learned allready to beware of the Internet and all of those people trying to make emotional sales.I have been ion BP for about 20 months while medically recovering.  

Are they equally emotional about illegal airbnb rentals?

This could escalate an emotionally charged situation. 

Ask you to wire a transaction fee (mine was $500) to a loan agent that they have, can provide you with identification if asked (still could be fake/stolen), can't find them on social media or have credibility of friends/colleagues, communication is difficult on the phone, can provide wrong account numbers of individual that is on a real bank spread sheet (had to go to chase to confirm), say that they need $2600.00 (other half they paid) for the bank transfer be completed from the IMF (international money fund).

It's just that the "emotional" part of us makes it difficult to give up a "bird in the hand".  :-)

I communicated regularly with them through Fri, showed up to relocate.