Amazing Tenant Stories

[Tom C]

I have a pretty amazing story. So I am over at the duplex and the one tenant told me she'd really like to do some landscaping and was wondering if I could buy a few plants for her to put in.. I said sure. So I go and get 8 plants, 2 of each kind for each side of the front steps.

So, we will call her Chris, is very excited and starts to plant her side right away. Then she tells me that she's not planting the other tenants side. I told her that if she's not doing it and the other tenant isn't doing it, then someone better tell me, so I can do it. So Chris says she will get the other tenant to do it. OK..

So I go back a few days later to lay down some mulch and when I checked the other tenants flower bed, I noticed that they planted the plants, still in the freaking black plastic pots!! I was amazed. I pulled the tenant out along with her boyfriend and asked her just what they were thinking.

They really did not have a clue. They did not know that you were suppose to pull the plants out of the plastic pot, before planting it. Now granted, they are kids, mid 20's, but even if you have never help your parents, grandparents or watched Gardening by the Yard..

Wouldn't common sense simply tell you that you had to take it out of the pot before planting, but then again, this is the same tenant, that just had her 4 kids taken away and is now pregnant with twins.