I respectfully disagree with my colleagues who say not to accept partial rent.

A couple people will be ok and sign your new lease, but just assume 100% turn over and then re-examine the deal and decide if you still want to dive into it.

They have rental markets researched and examined to the Nth degree because they have the resources to do so.

And if they're not, they tend to be overly expensive (for my criteria, note that many others disagree with me wholeheartedly there and that's okay).

The broker exam in my opinion has NOTHING to do with running a brokerage or supervising sales people just as the salesperson exam doesn't qualify someone to do a good job selling real estate. 

The only annoying part is that they use some sort of computer generated appraisal at first (which comes in low because it doesnt take into account local neighborhood or updates to the property etc) and if you disagree with the value then you have to pay $425 to have a full appraisal done so thats where i am in the process currently.

I don't necessarily disagree because there are a lot of vacant houses (not necessarily rentable, but are still standing), but I haven't heard landlords complain about not being able to fill units for any price around here.

I'm a title examiner. 

Granted it was a few years ago (2016, 2017) and some would make the argument that the market is different now but I would disagree. 

Those that disagree will say "why use my own money when i can use someone else's"?