That’s what wifey says all the time! if you are a busy professional, you have better things to do with your time then be a nuisance. If you are lower income or unemployed, you have all the time in the world to harass your landlord.
These days we just use linkedin for background checks on tenants. Usually pretty easy to figure out if someone is a reliable tenant / real person or not via their LinkedIn profile and connections.
One more thing. We actually don’t ask tenants for their linkedin profiles. Has been pretty easy to find them based on the information they submit on the application. To a certain extent same philosophy as hiring. Quite often i don’t ask candidates for references. I dig through linkedin to find people in common that I trust and just reach out to them directly
Same issue with Linkedin unless their pictures are on their profiles or they provide the url. @manch can create a questionnaire that asks for Linkedin urls and Yelp usernames lol