Sometimes tenants make you smile!

[Roy N.]

So, here we are, November 25th - not even Yankee Thanksgiving yet - I'm hauling the last load of leaves and brush to the compost yard ahead of the forecast snow, when I receive an SMS alert from my bank!?!

Background: I have an alert set to notify me when a deposit takes place on any day other than the first of the month. This was done to track late rent payments that occasionally trickle in on the 2nd and 3rd.

I look at the message and based on the amount, it appears the new, young couple, who just moved in at the first of November, paid their December rent.

Now the smile is only partly because the tenant paid rent a week before it is due ... the rest of the smile is because I knew this was going to happen, I just did not believe it.

When I was vetting the application and called this couples {at the time} current landlord, the dialogue went:

Me: "Do they always pay their rent on the 1st of the month?

Landlord: Never.

Me: Pardon?

Landlord: They always pay around the 25th or 26th?

Me: Really!?

Landlord [laughing]: Like clockwork, a week before the first.

Me [pause]: Ah, ok ... that's not where I thought you were going.

So, like clockwork, they paid rent a week before it was due ... I may need to find a few more Tenants like these.