You have to answer the phone whenever you can when a prospect calls.  

I would still recommend running credit, criminal and eviction and being specific about your screening criteria.  

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When folks headhunt me, I ask for three things.1) Access to their interest rate pricing.2) Put me on the phone with the regional underwriting manager. 3) Put me on the phone with your regional operations manager.4) I'm not interested in talking to you, headhunter/recruiter dude, so go away.I have found that there is absolutely a trade-off.

Given the evictions, I would definitely screen very thoroughly and check everything.  

I would call the lesser qualified tenant and tell her that you had received the other very strong application first and see if she still wants to risk her cash in the screening process.I often may receive several applications in a day and run the screening that evening.

Since I had little knowledge of development and added little value to the deal itself, I asked for a very small percentage of their commission and the chance to be included on emails, phone calls and meetings when applicable. 

Before I found this out though I gathered from our phone conversation that this was a gentleman and his wife that are retired and no longer are living in this house and I believe they are free and clear from the mortgage, although I will find this out tomorrow.

A tenant in a ground floor unit reached out over this past week asking if I would install a screen door as "the previous landlord had promised to put one in".