“if a tenant presses the rent now button and you don’t want to take a holding deposit so it my property isn’t de listed wouldn’t rejecting the tenant cause them to look elsewhere.”
I’ve had this happen twice, where the tenant pressed that button too early.
You can include a message with the rejection, so I just put “I am returning your deposit now because we are not ready to go to that stage yet, this is not rejecting you as a potential tenant” I haven’t lost a tenant through that yet.