Our best one was after 6 months of paying on time the tenants missed the f the monthly payment. My business partner called them and left a message. I followed up the next day making my cell phone indicate private on the caller id. The husband picks up the phone and immediately goes into a long story of how his wife was abducted by aliens and the National Enquirer was on their way over for a paid interview. WTF?? First thing that came to my mind was that my partner was trying to prank me but then I remembered that I had dialed the call. I was speechless. Wish I had recorded the call. After reiterating the story to my partner, my wife, and about 6 friends, we jumped into the car and decided to make a social call to the property. When we arrived at the neighborhood there were police cars everywhere. The husband was hog tied in the back of one of the cruisers flipping out like a bad episode of Cops. Ends out he went off the deep end and his wife left him for the 18 year old paperboy (she was 40ish and had been hit by the ugly truck several times IMHO). Luckily his mother showed up and I told her they had 3 days to get the stuff out of the house or I donate it. She was the co-signer on the lease. Note to self....next time a 40 year old tenant needs their mother to co-sign...run, run fast.
2nd favorite. We did an inspection of another property. A newly rehabbed townhouse we intended to flip but were upside down when the market slid. I warned the tenant that I was overly protective of the house since we used materials intended to flip not to rent. We even had butcher block counters in the kitchen. I warned him : no smoking, no pets, no farting, no nothing. When we toured the house we found head butt holes throughout the house. He went on to explain the damage was not his fault as he has a medical condition that causes a neck spasm and he does not have control of his actions.
Hopefully I will not be adding a third story anytime soon. :roll:
