Excuses for not paying rent

By Tenant

Here is a page for all renters out there. Hopefully, if you are late on paying your rent you have a really good excuse as to why. Listed below are some of the excuses tenants make every time they are late on paying their monthly rent and dues.

• Roommate excuse. The roommate excuse based on the name itself uses the tenant’s roommate as a reason to justify not paying rent. They may say that their illegal roommate had skipped out on them and that they will be late for paying the rent but promises to pay within the next week or so.
• No Income yet. This is the most common excuse tenants make. They may make up some stories about not able to pay rent this week or this month due to their company having some troubles mailing the checks to their employees because of some issues with the post office or something.
• Boyfriend excuse. Some will make up fake boyfriends and blaming them for losing the money which was intended for paying the rent and instead pays the landlord with a little amount of money and say that that would do for now.
• Closed bank account excuse. This is also very common to tenant who pays checks rather than cash. Once their check bounces they would say that their bank had closed their bank account without telling them thus making an excuse for not paying the rent for this or that month.
• Dead Excuse.  This is a weird excuse yet sometimes it works. Dead excuse involves the tenant making some ghost stories about their dead mother or anyone from their family who passed away telling them not to pay rent until they talk to them again.
• The IRS. With this excuse all blame went to the IRS.  Tenants would say that the IRS froze all their accounts and assets thus they won’t be able to pay their rent on time and it will take them about a week or so to find another source of income to be able to pay their monthly rent.

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