Diary of a Slumlord: Entry 4 – Why Immigrants Make Better Tenants than Natives

There are some sad facts about this country, but it’s a long list and we only have time for one today. That one sad truth is this: immigrants to America tend to be far more responsible, honest, hard-working, and ingenuous than their native-born brethren in America.

Now there are a slew of sociological reasons for this phenomenon, and for the sake of brevity I’ll restrain myself, but consider this: in order to get here, whether legally or otherwise, immigrants have to go through a LOT of bull$hit, which weeds out the lazy. Their American neighbor next door is handed a welfare check every month, and decided at 15 that working (and education, for that matter) is for the birds.

As an aside, illegal immigrants actually make even better tenants than their legal counterparts, because they don’t want you nosing around their business. Sink’s leaking? Don’t call the landlord, let’s just fix it ourselves.

So forget Billy Bob and his three teeth, and rent your houses to immigrants. Hell, they’re just happy to be here, which is a lesson we could all stand to learn from them.

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