A good excuse for regularly inspecting your property is to tell the tenant you are coming by to change the furnace filter.4.

I recommend that you learn the tax code and take ownership over your strategy.Not having some foundational knowledge and an opinion on how to approach taxes as a business owner is a huge mistake.In my experience, every single business owner who says "I just let my CPA worry about it and I focus on my business" is doing a suboptimal job at tax planning.They are likely missing out on 10s or hundreds of thousands in saved dollars every year.Stop making excuses and get to work.Just a few months of part-time learning about taxes will pay you for the rest of your career.

Many applicants just want to tell us their excuses over the phone, but if they won’t take the time to put it in writing, we find they rarely end up being good tenants.UnderwritingTraditionally, landlords have only looked at the income of applicants and approved those having income equal to three times the property rent.

On BBB (Better Business Bureau) an agent states he never got his commission.It is always some form of excuse with these people. 

I feel like they have a handbook of what to say to customers to get their money and then how to come up with excuses for why nothing ever happens.

"I don't know what happened" or "It was that way when I got home" are the constant excuses I hear regarding damages to the property.

Developer I hired was located overseas and every time I asked for reports on work done made an excuse about going off due to national holidays.

There is absolutely no excuse for the tardiness of financial reports, or information to investors, UNLESS the sponsor has run out of money to pay account/attorney, or employees; the sponsor is trying to come up with a way to “creatively” deliver misleading information, or the sponsor just doesn’t want to acknowledge reality.  

They are definitely that type - their excuses are always poorly-reasoned, convenient, and kind of dismissive to be honest.

I would add that when Ive come across this situation (my tenant's excuse was "I have a cat i dont want it to get out") I've had a very frank conversation with them.