Tenants From Hell Quotes

[James Wise]

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"

[Jim K.]

@James Wise

All right, I'll bite.

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."