You'll obviously have to fully furnish it (furniture, tv, bedding, linens, kitchenware, etc) if it's a vacation rental. 

Get some of those fake cc tv cameras that have a blinking light 5 hat makes them look like they are always recording.  

The limb knocked out the bottom section of my patio enclosure screen door as well as some of the window screens. 

Tenant screening is key.

Where there are no applicable building, housing, or health codes, maintain the roofs, windows, screens, doors, floors, steps, porches, exterior walls, foundations, and all other structural components in good repair and capable of resisting normal forces and loads and the plumbing in reasonable working condition.

If he can prove he is getting the check (which is easy to do), then you just screen him like you screen anyone else.

Has anyone ever had an applicant pay the app fees, and then get rejected during screening?

I'm not a lawyer and I dont play one on tv.

Is that screen fee = application fee?

You just place the @ symbol with the name of the person behind it and you'll see the persons name come up on the bottom of the screen and you click on it and the highlight function will occur.