PropertyManagementMaven: When your prospective tenant or current tenant tells you something, do you really know what they really mean?

When your prospective tenant or current tenant tells you something, do you really know what they really mean?

I really like this property......I can afford this place until I find one with a garage or can advertise for a roommate.

I am an excellent tenant, I always pay my rent and never complain......my current landlord gets the rent, eventually, and I don’t bother telling her about the repairs that need to be done in her property.

I think my furniture will fit.....the property is OK, and the rent is too high and I will need to rent a storage unit to keep all my junk.

I love to do yard work.  I like to garden...I love the exercise....I used to mow the grass for my parents for my allowance when I was a teenager.   Mowing is a “resistance” exercise, right?

I really enjoyed renting from my last landlord.....She never raised the rent and let me decorate my apartment in tones of purple and black.

Where I am living now has lots of repair problems that my landlady won’t fix....The Building Dept. has been called several times to inspect my unit and I won’t let them in because I am keeping a pit bull for a friend.

My credit is excellent, look at all of my credit cards!!!....I have maxed out my VISA making my monthly MasterCard payments.