Congratulations. You have better luck than I did, and than my renter friends did. Maybe it's the time period. We bought a house in 2004 (and again in 2005) and haven't rented since.
We also bought a house in '04 and have lived there since; so I would have been renting at the same time period.
People are people; some honest, some dishonest, but geography could have something to do with it as well. We have rented solely in Iowa, and in general I have found that a higher percentage of people (certainly not all) in this region place great value on honesty and personal integrity.