| No. No error. Pot smokers make bad decisions MUCH more frequently than sober non-users. I am in a position to observe that -- lots of non-users and a few users, at our properties It doesn't matter if 100,000 non-experienced people tell me my opinion (based on personal experience across 23+3 years) about pot smokers is wrong. I actually have THE EXPERIENCE. But, as I've said, and as I tell prospective tenants, it is not for me to tell you how to behave. My job, if you are a fan of repeated intoxication, is to keep you out of my apartments. That's all I do. And in the past year and a half, 18 people have slipped under the tenant screening radar -- and got evicted for smoking on the premises. We go to so much trouble to help people realize "hey, these people are really serious about this 'no pot' rule, this place isn't for me" 18 people in a year and half. Despite the fact we TOLD them, UP FRONT, no pot smoking (or cigars or cigarettes) on the premises. Before we even take a deposit. Think about that. 18 pre-warned-and-now-evicted pot smokers. THAT'S THE POT. That's the bad decision making. And you don't see or experience that. So I understand it's hard to grok, these pot smokers. |
This is the crux of it. You simply cannot know for certain who the non-users are. I guarantee you over the course of your 23 years, there were tenants who you assumed fell into the non-users group but actually didn't.