I know from experience that some potential renters can be a real "PIA" with tons of nit-picky questions and requests before signing the normal rental contract. If you are one of those, perhaps the owner wants you to find another place. Some renters seem to see the process as a challenge of wits for whatever reason. If that is not the case, then the owner is seemingly going overboard with the details and you might be happier with a different rental anyway. There are lots of homes to choose from and most are not that restrictive, (and lots of potential renters also). On one occasion, after dealing with too many frivolous questions, it finally came out that the potential renter did not believe that "visitors" should cost extra and they were simply trying to have two couples live there for the duration in order to split the cost. I was happy to not rent to them after knowing their firm motive. If they had been honest about it up front, we could have saved a lot of time-consuming correspondence with a simple price adjustment. There may be two sides to this post.
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