About the Author

O. Wendell Pickle, a longtime real estate broker and investor, has rented to a variety of tenants ranging from responsible citizens to murderers and murderesses, embezzlers, liars, and thieves.

Book Content

In his collection of limericks, written with an exorbitant amount of poetic license, Pickle offers a glimpse into what it is like to be a landlord in America while sharing some of the hundreds of creative excuses he has been offered by tenants with and without a straight face for not paying their rent either on time or at all.

Landlords Lament is a compilation of amusing verses that seek to help both seasoned or novice landlords feel they are not alone in a world filled with really bad excuses.

Sample Verse

Rent is not credit by any means. He has trouble understanding, it seems. He'll go out of his way
To spend it all that day
With a I had to buy me some new jeans.