Yesterday was Sunday and my day to run the projection at church, both in the morning and the evening (for revival). Obviously, I didn't get any real estate related work done - except showing rentals to 4 different people in the afternoon.
One of these showings was to a mother and her daughter. The daughter claimed that she was living with her mother and was looking for a place of her own. She was 22 years old and already had 3 kids, but no husband - oops! I guess I really should say oops, oops, and oops yet again! At any rate, that's pretty young to already have 3 illegitimate kids (although certainly not completely out of normal in today's screwed up world). Except for this issue, the girl and her mother seemed fairly normal. They were driving a nice vehicle; didn't look like hoodlums; and seemed sincere. WRONG!
When I started checking her application, I discovered that just about everything she said was a lie. She said that she was living with her mother. That was a big fat lie - she was renting a property from a local landlord (who I know). She said that she had never been evicted - another lie - her current landlord was evicting her right now! In fact, about the only thing that was real on here application was her name!!!
Unfortunately, in the low income rental business, the is the norm - not the exception. I turn down about 95% of applicants because they are either a serious criminal or have been evicted. Our world is in BIG TROUBLE and this lazy, lying, deadbeat riff-raff is breeding faster than rabbits. That doesn't speak well for the future!
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I see a LOT of divorced people. I also see a few filing bankruptcy. Sad sad indeed!
Yes, sad. However there is no excuse for people to be liars!
As my landlord friend says down here in San Antonio:
"They lie to survive"
"They lie to survive"
Yeah, that's exactly what they think. It's sad that they're not smart enough to know that being honest would get them farther in life!
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