They are the perennial job holders who are completely dependent on their employers.

If you want flowering plants only do perennials. 

They had a donor that wanted to pay to have a perennial garden installed by a professional landscape company. 

Rich Dad Poor Dad is a perennial favorite around here. 

@Paolo Sciarra I'll echo @Todd Dexheimer and add Wilmington and Asheville (smaller markets, obviously).Additionally Greenville, Spartanburg, Columbia, and Charleston in SC are growing as well.I track population growth trends in this publicly available spreadsheet as I believe it's a very good indicator of the positive long term trends that support the MFH asset class (not the only one, but a great one).https://docs.google.com/spread...It's all based on government data and identifies both perennially high growth metros, as well as recent accelerators (Flint, Michigan - really!)

Today a young woman was tailing me as I browsed the discounted tile and then the discounted perennials.

Lower end tenants can also be stickier, as they are perennial renters, versus the higher end folks who are likely transitioning to ownership (admittedly, all the middle class folks with short-sale stains on their credit may keep them as renters for longer periods -- so we should like to rent to short-salers?).

Detroit, our perennial favorite, lost 25% of its population from 2000 to 2010.

The nation’s largest generation, “Millennials,” long viewed as perennial home renters (who were reluctant or unable to buy), are now emerging as a driving force in the U.S. housing market’s recent recovery. 2.

@Jeff Schemmel Clean the gutters, check the condition of the roof, and grounds keeping (cleaning up leaves from last fall, cutting back dead perennial flowers, etc.)