I wouldn’t say there is less crime out in the sticks. But there’s less detected crime out in the sticks.

It’s a matter of propinquity.

Of course, it’s often a scam. But application fees can be legit. The key is how they are administered.

The fee should not be non refundable, just not refunded under certain specific circumstances.

It’s not fraud if you tell the applicant what the rental criteria are and what happens to the money if they are turned down.

In ancient times, I was a small time landlord. On a couple of occasions I asked for an application fee. I followed these rules, which I explained to the applicant:

1. The application fee was refunded if I turned down the applicant, provided the background check did not disclose a lie on the application.
2. The application fee was applied to the security deposit if I granted the rental.
3. The application fee was not refunded if the background check found a lie on the application, or if I granted the rental and the applicant changed their mind and declined to rent.

It costs money to do background checks. I wasn’t going to be out of pocket if an applicant was dishonest with me.

Ya, the ending of that movie was a big disappointment to me.

If you weren’t interested in computer science, going to college for it probably would have been a mistake. It sounds like your mistake was not finding your career niche early enough.

Why, this is a crash, nor are we out of it.

You are supposed to wait until you are going to sleep to obsess about that.

Ya, like any major media company would go anywhere near that. Great idea though. It would get dynamite ratings.

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