If you have thin skin where you're going to take things personally, its not the best business to be in. 

Just remember that if a tiny dog nips at you, it usually doesn't even break the skin.

I try to screen as many people over the phone as possible, but those who insist on coming  I want them to have a little skin in the game and show me their sincere.

No skin off my nose.As I've said before, if you need $50 a month extra, you have much bigger problems.And why would you risk a new unknown tenant if you have a known quantity in the property.

You can collect a down payment or option fee, and because they have skin in the game, they generally take better care of the property.

Landlording in the low income community takes thick skin, sound financial management and the time to be hands on.

More than one way to skin a cat? 

The thing that really got under my skin was that this tenant filed two additional fradulent bankrupcies of  people I had never met using my apartment address.

You could reason this is true because the renters aren't "invested" where they live so they don't have any skin in the game so to speak. 

Critical tenant has no skin in the game and their opinion just doesn't matter.You might counter sometime with "If you would like to pay for the services, then I might consider having you give the orders..."