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About me

Freelance writer, photographer, and general handyman with words, I roam the back roads of America looking for the slightly different, the bizarre, and the fun that can be found in those 'off the highway' locales.

Over the last 25 years, I have been a landlord (Certified Property Manager), a property developer, project manager, lab scientist, intellectual property negotiator, marketing director, corporate spy, and all around curmudgeon.

I have written everything from effective ad copy, marketing collateral, legal notices, short fiction, speeches and radio scripts, to detailed reports from analyzing complex data sets. My mind is open to new ideas and concepts.

My company blog can be found at http://www.dryingink.com

Briefly me

My passion is ...

learning about the world, I'm a permanent tourist.

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

don't eat that!

My childhood ambition ...

fly to the moon.

My favorite memory ...

getting my puppy at 46.

Why I write ...

I go into another place in my mind.

My first job ...

field worker.

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Landlords: Using the Internet to find tenants by W Thomas Payne
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Landlords: Evicting a problem tenant by W Thomas Payne

Featured article by W Thomas Payne

Home & Garden > Rental Properties Property managers: Top 10 warning signs of potential bad renters

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There are several key characteristics that potential problem tenants share that indicate they will be bad news, to you as the landlord and the tenants around them. Stick with your gut feelings on these warning signals, or you could be the next person in a string of property managers dealing with a tenant nobody else wants to deal with. The top ten signs of a potentially bad renter are:

1. It is the last week of the month when your phone rings, and the voice on the phone only wants to know you if you have an apartment, any apartment, available on the first.

2. When you answer the phon...

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W Thomas Payne

Urbana, Illinois US