Dumbest things from a tenant or prospective tenant?

[Christine Mwai]

This is just for a good laugh. I know landlording is a business and can be tough. Anyone ready to share a little humor of what you've encountered?:):)..... my top  of the list was a tenant I was about to evict who told me with a straight face that he was late for 3 months rent "because his wife had died"....Oops, I had just gotten off the phone with her and she was alive and well... :):)

[Brian Ellefson]

These were bank customers - not tenants. 

I was a commercial lender before this and some customers came into the bank who were interested in borrowing money for a large commercial property in the middle of town. She made quilts, he made bird houses. They wanted to open a retail space and sell just those quilts and bird houses there. I had to ask them, "Ok, at any given time, how many people around here are in the market for a quilt or a bird house and how many quilts and bird houses would you have to sell each month to pay the mortgage on this multimillion dollar property?" They couldn't answer that. And then the guy says, "Well, I should probably let you know our credit aint that good." His wife yelled at him, "Why would you tell him that?" It just got worse from there.