Rental Application Cover Letter

We are viewing a house this week and it is apparently a group viewing. I am familiar with the property and I'm fairly confident that I will want this one. We have looked at a *lot* of houses in this price range over the past few weeks and none are as lovely as this house is from memory.

My question is, I want our application to stand out. Should I do a covering letter. My application on its own sucks - Im a single parent student, we have a pet, and Im employed casually (though I can work as much or as little as I want and am guaranteed at least 2 days per week moving to 3 next year) but its still casual, I also stopped working when I had bubs to spend time bonding and getting back in shape mental health wise after the breakup of my marriage etc, so ended up not working for 2 years although I was asked by my company to return. We also currently rent from a family member

Should we do the cover letter?

What should I include? Avoid?

I really want a decent house and even if its not how I remember it, the fact its in an area where I don't need to worry about personal security is a seller.

Please help! Thanks :)

For the last 4 properties we have lived at , I have done a cover letter and have always got the property:)

I make it like an introduction to myself and my family , a little bit about us , our history with rentals , about our pet ,I include our rental and job references again . Talk a little about what we love about the area and the house and say tang we are looking at this property to make our home for quite a while etc

So far it's worked every time

I always do one. Its worked every time for us too.
I do a brief intro and a bit about why we wanf that area.

Thanks guys, its all typed up and ready to go. Crossing fingers now

We got to the end stage and the landlord decided to put the property on the market last minute!! Thanks heaps though, will definitely do a cover letter for each application from here on :)

Thankyou ladies. I have just written out one too for a home were applying for today. Got everything crossed that we get it eeek

Good luck fo3 I hope you get it. :)