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Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO
so the wife approved the one who had payment issues and weird without feedback from you.
sucks when that happens.
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Kind of. I talked to her and was she was all adamant that she was going to take it and "would give us six months of rent in cash right now" if we would commit
right now. I really didn't like how she was coming across and how she was trying to take control of the process, and she was saying some stuff that had my spidey sense tingling.
We'd had one semi-interested bite before that, so I went in to the house with her, gave the wife our secret "back me up on this" look, and said, "Honey, this woman would like to pay us cash in advance now if we rent the apartment to her right now, but I know we had the other person who was first in line. I think we need to wait for that person, right?"
My wife didn't see my "back me up on this" look and said, "Oh, we don't know how serious that person was, so I think we give it to this woman. Welcome aboard!"
At that point there was nothing I could do but try to give my wife a much more blatant "take it back, take it back" look, but she again didn't notice it, and the rest is history. This tenant is the one that I think may have come into our house while we were gone, which inspired my investigatory thread a while back.
My wife and I are now very clear on what the codes are to get a weird candidate out the door. She apologized to me later and said she completely missed the cues.