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[Quentin Mitchell]

I always hear people talk about the horror stories about tenants and there are plenty, but I would like to share about a great tenant that actually ended up moving. I had a tenant about a year and a half ago that I had rented to, she was younger than I liked and originally was going to have a roommate (the roommate thing didn't work out). All of the tests that I gave her she passed with flying colors so by default I had to give her a chance and she started off great paying rent ahead of time, very low maintenance just an ideal tenant. Then the worst-case scenario happened, she lost her job and couldn't afford the rent anymore, but she told me as soon as it occurred, she voluntarily forfeited her security deposit because she broke her lease, she found me another tenant that turned out to be really good and is still there today and left the place very clean.

That is my good tenant story makes me think I screened her well, please share other good tenant stories.

[Branden Edenfield]

@Quentin Mitchell

I will never forget my best tenant. I was managing a property for a loan repositioning company in Metairie Louisiana and this resident was the 88th lease to be signed back in 1971. She had lived there ever since. Fast forward to 2016 when I came in as an Assistant Manager we had to update files. So I called my long term in. We discussed life and the property for 7 hours that day as she had seen everything. While she had her tendencies I will not mention due to fair housing she was an amazing person in her final years as she would come in every Saturday to have coffee with me and discuss life, the New Orleans Saints, and basketball. As grouchy of a New Orleans lady she was she always had a smile and was always so happy to talk.