Real Estate Broker · Cleveland Dayton Cincinnati Toledo Columbus & Akron, OH · Member since 2013 · 30k+ posts · 20k+ votes
Best part about being a landlord is.....The money. It's definitely the money. The job is savage as savage can be lol.
But somewhere in the top 10 you've got the wild things that your tenants will say to you. It's very interesting seeing how some folks think, live & behave. Here is a great quote with an accompanying photo. What are some of your favs?
"It ain't my downstairs neighbor or anybody else's goddamn business if I don't use a showercurtain"
I had a young tenant who had recently gone through three jobs and was completely broke and living on the charity of his baby momma's mother pull up to where I was working on the house I rented the family. He was in a late-model Subaru with a gigantic panoramic sunroof that stretched across all the seats. So he hopped out of the car and started talking to me about his money problems. I looked over at the car and asked him if he still owed anything on it. "$6000," he told me. "I bought it for myself as a present out of college."
I remembered instantly that I too had bought myself a present out of college. A Seiko watch, I think it was $89.00, back in 1997. It was a good chunk out of the biweekly paycheck I got working the administrative temp job that I had at the Toshiba factory that summer. I had been tempted to buy a car, too, a well-used Geo Storm for $1500 cash, but I realized that was too extravagant and I could get by without one.
Without a beat, my tenant went right back to talking about his money problems. I put my head down and kept on working, tuning him out as he droned on and on about how unfair Murphy's Law had been to him while thinking to myself, "Keep your mouth shut, keep your mouth shut, this is how you get rich in America."
I had a young tenant who had recently gone through three jobs and was completely broke and living on the charity of his baby momma's mother pull up to where I was working on the house I rented the family. He was in a late-model Subaru with a gigantic panoramic sunroof that stretched across all the seats. So he hopped out of the car and started talking to me about his money problems. I looked over at the car and asked him if he still owed anything on it. "$6000," he told me. "I bought it for myself as a present out of college."
I remembered instantly that I too had bought myself a present out of college. A Seiko watch, I think it was $89.00, back in 1997. It was a good chunk out of the biweekly paycheck I got working the administrative temp job that I had at the Toshiba factory that summer. I had been tempted to buy a car, too, a well-used Geo Storm for $1500 cash, but I realized that was too extravagant and I could get by without one.
Without a beat, my tenant went right back to talking about his money problems. I put my head down and kept on working, tuning him out as he droned on and on about how unfair Murphy's Law had been to him while thinking to myself, "Keep your mouth shut, keep your mouth shut, this is how you get rich in America."
I had a young tenant who had recently gone through three jobs and was completely broke and living on the charity of his baby momma's mother pull up to where I was working on the house I rented the family. He was in a late-model Subaru with a gigantic panoramic sunroof that stretched across all the seats. So he hopped out of the car and started talking to me about his money problems. I looked over at the car and asked him if he still owed anything on it. "$6000," he told me. "I bought it for myself as a present out of college."
I remembered instantly that I too had bought myself a present out of college. A Seiko watch, I think it was $89.00, back in 1997. It was a good chunk out of the biweekly paycheck I got working the administrative temp job that I had at the Toshiba factory that summer. I had been tempted to buy a car, too, a well-used Geo Storm for $1500 cash, but I realized that was too extravagant and I could get by without one.
Without a beat, my tenant went right back to talking about his money problems. I put my head down and kept on working, tuning him out as he droned on and on about how unfair Murphy's Law had been to him while thinking to myself, "Keep your mouth shut, keep your mouth shut, this is how you get rich in America."
I evicted a chick out of a $600/mo apartment earlier this year.
She was there on move out day crying & screaming while my crew threw all of her stuff in the tree lawn.
After awhile she got tired & drove off in her ESCALADE!
Rental Property Investor · Jersey City, NJ · Member since 2011 · 1k+ posts · 876 votes
8y
"I don't care if I am on parole, I'm going to punch you down". Said in front of a uniformed fire inspector there to investigate that numerous BS complaints they had filed. The reason for the threat was that I had accused his girlfriend of stuffing a piece of spray foam back in the hole I had cut it out of weeks earlier, after they had complained it was blocking the gas shut-off for the stove. why they were concerned about the shut-off cannot be explained other than looking for something to harass me with. Their eviction was gratifying.
Real Estate Agent & Investor · West Chester, PA · Member since 2013 · 90 posts · 21 votes
8y
"I hear noises."
It was noises in the tenants head...
she just wanted to move out because of personal issues she was dealing with. We let her out of the lease early but not without securing a tenant to move in first.
Real Estate Agent · Houma, LA · Member since 2016 · 238 posts · 115 votes
8y
"We're moving out next month."
What about the balance of the lease?
"Oh, we're on a month-to-month lease.."
You might want to read your copy of the lease agreement again, because it is definitely a year-long lease.
"No it's not!"
...?
Rental Property Investor · OK · Member since 2015 · 316 posts · 216 votes
8y
@James Wise
“I don’t care what he {the PhD in microbiology employed by one of the state’s environmental quality regulators} says about mold spores. It’s making me sick and I’m getting a lawyer.”
Lol, baby wipes down the toilet.....Never gets old. That one is definitely a frequent flyer for us. Here is one of our latest baby wipe adventures......Two dudes in this space. Not even a baby. Homey's need to lay off the spicy wings or somethin'.
@James Wise is this the tenant that you posted on youtube?
Yup. That one was one of our most popular. 150k+ views. Landlord's were disgusted by that Escalade & the bleeding hearts thought I was a huge jerk for posting it all online.
Side note, I think i'm buying myself an Escalade here in the near future. They've been running a 0% APR on the 2018 models last couple weeks...It's getting tempting.
Glendale, CA · Member since 2018 · 44 posts · 18 votes
8y
Not exactly a quote, but I had a tenant send me a 2 page long email of things wrong with a unit a week after he signed the lease and moved in...and this is after he did a full walk through and signed off on everything being in fine condition.
I let him break the lease, and kept the security deposit for my wasted time.
Not exactly a quote, but I had a tenant send me a 2 page long email of things wrong with a unit a week after he signed the lease and moved in...and this is after he did a full walk through and signed off on everything being in fine condition.
I let him break the lease, and kept the security deposit for my wasted time.
Real Estate Broker · Temecula, CA · Member since 2014 · 992 posts · 782 votes
8y
I have a potential tenant who stated : I'll only rent if ceiling fans are added to this vaulted ceiling, a slab extension so we can have barstools at the kitchen counter and one other item...
I stated that that would not be approved and she could choose to rent the home as is (Wonderful condition) or not at all. I rented it to someone else that same day...
I have a potential tenant who stated : I'll only rent if ceiling fans are added to this vaulted ceiling, a slab extension so we can have barstools at the kitchen counter and one other item...
I stated that that would not be approved and she could choose to rent the home as is (Wonderful condition) or not at all. I rented it to someone else that same day...