There are multiple reasons why we have you complete an application. The primary reason is because not every person can be approved on a unit. There are important factors to consider when looking to rent a property like credit, income, references, rental history, pets, location, size and many other factors. Our position is that if you are going to view one of our units, we want to be sure you could be approved. It is difficult to tell someone they don’t qualify, and a majority of the time that can be prevented by completing an application. Consider if you were moving out of a rental unit and your landlord kept showing the property to people that couldn’t qualify. That is an unnecessary burden on you. We want to reduce inconvenience on our tenants and if we are showing a property, we want to feel confident that if you like it we could move forward.