U Mite b a Landlord if...

You might be a landlord if you go on vacation an look at houses. Or back seat has rental contract , applications, eviction papers, flashlight, paint brushes, tape measure --70.210.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Deanna [TX]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 6:16 PM
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If you've walked into your friend's house, and you see their light fixture/flooring/door/whatever, and you know where they bought it, perhaps what year they bought it, and about how much they paid for it... --96.46.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Homer [TX]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 6:20 PM
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You might be a landlord if you don't know how to set your alarm clock. I get up when I wake up. --75.141.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Gail K [GA]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 6:37 PM
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You're sitting in the doctors waiting room, look down at the floor and think "ah...carpet tiles" (I've done this five or six times now at different offices).

Gail --73.20.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by NE [PA]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 6:41 PM
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Gail, you know you're a landlord if you sit in the doctors office and screen every other patient that walks in! --50.32.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by AllyM [NJ]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 6:51 PM
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You might be a landlord if you know more about what the employees are up to at the hardware store than your own cousins.

--73.33.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by melinda [MD]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 6:59 PM
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You might be a landlord if you have your own corner table at the local Burger King ----your "office" for filling out applications and leases . --24.233.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Roy [AL]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 7:09 PM
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All of your clothes has at least one paint smear on it,...and this is even when you hire out your painting. --68.63.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by myob [GA]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 7:15 PM
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Al so true. You might be a LL if you just bring paint into the house and you have paint on your cloths-- ditto white caulk.

In our younger days you might be a LL when after each purchase you "celebrated" the purchase in the new house!!!!! --74.184.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by LindaJ [NY]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 7:31 PM
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You can't walk past the clearance stickers in Lowes without thinking... Will I need one of these? where can I use it?

you are always checking the oops paint for neutral colors. --108.44.xx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by MikeA [TX]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 7:32 PM
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You might be a LL if while visiting at a friends house you notice the flapper on the toilet leaking and go out to the truck bring back and install a new one without asking or thinking about it.

--74.196.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by BRAD 20,000 [IN]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 8:08 PM
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Your car/truck seat and couch at home has paint spots from your work clothes.

You spray the carpet in your vehicle for fleas.

You check the newspaper police reports for your residents AND for current addresses on skippers.

You go to Convention and fix the dripping flapper in your hotel room.

You talk to the hotel maids about what cleaning products they use. (one had a lint roller on a long handle to pick up hair from the bathroom tile floor!!)

While driving you spot a toilet at the curb and slow down.

Serious LLs load it in the car!

BRAD

--68.50.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Janet [KY]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 8:31 PM
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If your driving down the street and come to a screeching halt to jump out of your car and grab a toilet tank

lid that you think just might fit your tank at the

rental that the tenant broke.

--74.236.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Marie [MO]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 8:33 PM
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You wash your cleaning rags before you wash your clothes. --98.156.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by DJ [VA]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 8:42 PM
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You get excited when you enter a house for sale and it is dirty & stinky. Less competition + lower purchase price = more equity. : ) --68.105.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by LivetheDream [AZ]) Posted on: May 4, 2017 10:02 PM
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When your gun has paint on it.

And the seat of your $70,000 pickup has a hole in it from the screwdriver you forgot was in your hip pocket.

When you celebrate because Harbor Freight tools opens a store in your town! :)

When you buy water heaters by the pallet. --47.216.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Domenick [NJ]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 3:08 AM
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...if your pants fall down from carrying too many keys. --73.199.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Barbara [VA]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 3:22 AM
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You get in your car to go to the grocery store, turn on the radio and start to drive, finding you went into auto pilot and wound up at Lowes. --68.107.xxx.x

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Lee [IN]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 4:16 AM
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Pookie mentioned this the other day... you're a LL when you celebrate at the buy of a property ANd the sell of a property --209.239.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by LindaJ [NY]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 4:42 AM
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You have multiple cleaning products most of them open because tenants left 3/4 of a bottle.

When people ask you where you got something in your house, you have no problem saying a tenant left it behind.

They know you well enough at the landfill to give you a break on price when you come with the truck load of junk from cleaning out a unit.

You give advice to people in Lowes that appear clueless while they are looking at a product. --108.44.xx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by gevans [SC]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 4:43 AM
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When you meet new people you mentally screen them.

When you are driving you set the rental price on every house you pass. --74.222.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Wilma [PA]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 8:51 AM
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You keep a running list of all the yard sale/ReStore/trash-picked items that you have available and where they are stored. --71.175.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Landlord ofthe Flies [TX]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 10:42 AM
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Every time you knock on a door, you loudly say "Landlord!" --99.125.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by WMH [NC]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 10:48 AM
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You go for a nice Sunday Drive...to scout for abandoned properties... --173.22.xx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 11:45 AM
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You might be a landlord if you find yourself looking into everyone's backseat looking for trash as a reason to "not qualify" the person at the stop light next to you. --24.239.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Amy [MO]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 12:04 PM
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You know where everything is at Lowe's, home Depot and Menards. You can guide anybody to any aisle. You correct new employees when they don't know where something is.

Like LindaJ, some of your cleaning supplies, staging items and furniture came from your rentals.

You often don't throw clothes out until they have holes in all the right(or wrong) places. Never know when all your work clothes will be dirty and you need a spare!

Ray-n-pa-- just enjoyed a date at Home Depot last Friday! We sat in every set of lawn furniture available while enjoying the twinkle lights and greenery nearby in the lawn and garden center. Just another night at our second home! I think hubby was distracted by the tool section. --136.32.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Ray-N-Pa [PA]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 2:34 PM
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If you have a four car garage and still don't have a place to park your car inside - you might be a LL..........Guilty! --24.239.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Gene [OH]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 2:57 PM
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Janet [KY], I have stopped several times and picked up the toilet tank lid and am waiting until we need to make a service call to see if the last one fits. So funny.

Ray-N-Pa [PA], I have a three car garage with an upstairs and it can only hold one car. My mom, also a landlord, has a rental next door and uses that 3 car garage which is full of stuff because my dad was a handyman and bought good deals for the rental properties and business. --155.188.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Dan [IL]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 2:58 PM
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If you keep a tool bag in your car comprising of common tools: various screwdrivers, open end crescent wrenches, measuring tape and a pipe wrench. They're there to help retrieve the various hardware off of discarded window panes, toilets or the various burners and control unit boxes of hot water heaters (they alone cost close to $200.00 each in my area). --66.87.xx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Steve [MA]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 4:23 PM
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You might be a LL if most of your friends & family always think you should pick up the check because even though you don't have a "real" job, you always seem to buy what ever you want. --72.93.xxx.x

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by William [AR]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 5:07 PM
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You might be a LL if while watching America's Funniest Home Videos, you see someone do something stupid, like knock a hole in the sheetrock or knock a light fixture from the ceiling and you say to your wife: "It's probability a rent house." --108.196.x.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Kyle [IN]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 6:11 PM
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You spend your anniversary waiting for the plumber at a rental.

You know the names of the guys at the dump.

You visit a family member's new home and immediately identify the color of the stock kitchen counters.

You have 3 stoves, and 4 refrigerators, 2 washers, and 3 dryers at your house.

You know how to tell fleas from bed bugs.

You have to move the light fixtures and paint brushes out of the car when you pack for vacation.

You try to figure out what brand the flooring in the small claims court is. --73.102.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by NE [PA]) Posted on: May 5, 2017 6:47 PM
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You know you're a landlord when you're at a department store or a grocery store and you are always on high alert for current or ex-tenants. You can dive down the opposite aisle with the speed of light and the grace of a figure skater. --50.32.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Janet [KY]) Posted on: May 7, 2017 9:55 PM
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Gene (Ohio) glad you do that too. --74.236.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Alan [AB]) Posted on: May 19, 2017 12:06 PM
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You are out somewhere and greet an old tenant with "Hi there, #3 from a few years ago..." --108.181.xx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by JLW [KS]) Posted on: May 19, 2017 12:32 PM
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When you check out at Lowe's you train the clerk how to use their system.

(F8 to check out with your AR account). --173.172.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by NE [PA]) Posted on: May 19, 2017 12:50 PM
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JLW, that's funny.

It's like when you check out at Home Depot or Lowes and you know the cashiers well enough to know which ones to avoid!

Even my wife knows now. We'll walk in and if certain ones are working, all I have to do is look at her and she'll say, "I know."

And we don't go through that checkout when we leave. --50.32.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Dan [MA]) Posted on: May 19, 2017 1:17 PM
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When you set off the metal detectors at the court house and the officers just wave you on through because they've seen you there so often. --76.19.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Barb [MO]) Posted on: May 19, 2017 8:00 PM
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You call the HVAC company and they answer, "Hi Barb, what unit do we need to take a look at?" Before you say a word.

OTOH, when your own goes out you go to the top of the list! --66.87.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Red Fox [FL]) Posted on: May 20, 2017 1:08 AM
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1. You have raised several millennial tenants who are not yet ready for prime time although some of them are having children themselves, Lord help us all. You hope maybe they can raise each other or grow up together.

2. Because of #1, you find yourself crying on the floor in a fetal position once every year or so. After your short pity party, the only thing to do is get up and get back to work!

3. You shop around hoping to find a collection agency that might really recover some money owed you.

4. Grownup applicants are GOLD now.

--142.196.xxx.x

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by JJ [OH]) Posted on: May 20, 2017 9:15 AM
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My daughter reminded me.

....when you use your 8 year old to climb through the window of a prospective new rental property. --66.87.xx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Adam [CT]) Posted on: May 21, 2017 1:46 AM
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When you refuse to visit your rental property unless you are in your most beat up car & clothes so your tenants don't think you are rich.

You cringe when you see a house fire story on the news hopeing that it was not a landlord who forgot to check his or her smoke detectors.

Your eyeballs have an uncontrollable urge to roll backwards whenever you hear someone start a sentence with "Can you work with me..." --66.87.xxx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Mickie [OH]) Posted on: May 21, 2017 4:15 AM
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And you might be a Landlord if everyone around you I'd surfing cute cat pic's and you're surfing houses on the Internet. --174.233.x.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by LisaFL [FL]) Posted on: May 21, 2017 5:06 AM
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If you paint all your house exteriors green and your tenant who is from Brazil calls to ask you if you like the color green.

Your first thought is that he wants to paint the house a different color and you try to come up with the correct reply and say yes, I do like the color green.

He then tells you he has tons of the color green in his garden that he picked for me if I want to stop by and get it and he'll give me a dozen eggs from his chickens too.

Thank goodness I really do like collard greens. --173.170.xxx.xxx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Red Fox [FL]) Posted on: May 21, 2017 11:41 AM
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You hear a meth lab has been busted in an apartment house located in the very small town where yours is and think God, it better not be mine! --142.196.xxx.x

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by WMH [NC]) Posted on: May 21, 2017 12:13 PM
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Red Fox, you need to come to the Convention! I too spent too many days in a fetal position on my bed, crying. That all changed after my very first Convention. Seriously. --173.22.xx.xx

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Red Fox [FL]) Posted on: May 21, 2017 2:12 PM
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WMH in NC, I'm getting ready to put my apartments on the market, but Mr Landlord has helped me immensely. I'm a whole lot better at it than when I started, but I'm ready to hang it up and go RV'ing. Thanks though. It's been a priceless education. --142.196.xxx.x

U Mite b a Landlord if... (by Honey [LA]) Posted on: May 21, 2017 7:34 PM
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You are almost on first name basis with the pick-up guy from the VVA and the PVA, and you feel that you have to explain why you seem to have so much to donate so often. --70.171.xx.xxx

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