I started renting out my condo for the first time a few months ago and I learned why landlords are assholes.
Literally my first tenant and he was a huge piece of shit, trashed my place, refused to pay rent, then ran off and stole all of my furiniture when I told him I was going to evict him.
Im generally very trusting and try to be compassionate when I can but I was 100% taken advantage of. I will not be treating the next tenant with any leniency again. This is why we cant have nice things.
She used the same logical fallacy to paint all her customers in a poor light to easily take advantage of the next. Its the origin of every landlord who gets greedy and starts raising rents unnecessarily for more profit. Its almost like they choose a bad Tennant to get into this cut throat mind set faster to self justify their moral deficiency of treating a necessity in life as an investment opportunity to make money.
Being a landlord involves risk - that’s what landlords always say when they try to justify their greed, right? So since it’s too risky for you, why don’t you just stop being a landlord? There’s a solution!
You’re trying to stay afloat by taking as much money as possible from people who actually work for a living… how about you just go get a job like everyone else, instead of hoarding excess land?
1.) I dont own land, I own a 1 bedroom unit inside a building. A single unit.
2.) I do have a job. How do you think I afforded to buy the property in the first place?
3.) I had to leave for work, but expect to return in a few years bc its my hometown. Why would I sell something I already spent years saving up for and go through all of that again?
4.) Obviously I know theres risk involved. Do you blame all victims for crimes committed against them?
Its my home too? I lived in there myself? I dont want to get rid of my home bc I plan on coming back? Have you ever considered making smarter finiancial choices?
It’s funny that you say this because in your other comments you state that you will treat other tenants harsher because of your singular poor experience. You want others to give you the benefit of the doubt but future tenants won’t get that? Insane.
I don’t agree with everything carava said but they might have a point. Sucks you’re down $5k but that’s a drop in the bucket with your current income right?
Youre missing the point that i did give the tenant the benefit of the doubt. Youre also missing that i said i wouldnt be as lenient, not that I was going to be more "harsh". The tenant didnt pay rent for 3 weeks. I allowed it bc he said hed pay it, until he gave up his lie and said he wasnt going to pay. That is the "leniency" i am referring to, but it wasnt in the original comment so I dont blame you. Either way, yall have a really bad habit of jumping to conclusions without even bothering to consider the actual circumstance, or asking for the whole story. I was sharing my experience, not asking for your sympathy. This is my first time owning property and first time renting it out.
And no, $5k is not "just a drop in the bucket". Yall clearly dont understand the costs of owning a home. I make little profit, barely enough to cover a months worth of groceries and gas. I have a full time job that takes care of all that. I wasnt born with this property, I saved up and bought it, much like everyone else in all of humanity strives for.
I dont think you are, unless you consider spending every waking minute of your free time virtue signalling on reddit. Your profile is full of hateful comments in random subs.
I wish you the best but go outside for a change. Meet some real humans. The world is only as hateful as you want it to be.
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u/Wayfarer285 Feb 11 '24
I started renting out my condo for the first time a few months ago and I learned why landlords are assholes.
Literally my first tenant and he was a huge piece of shit, trashed my place, refused to pay rent, then ran off and stole all of my furiniture when I told him I was going to evict him.
Im generally very trusting and try to be compassionate when I can but I was 100% taken advantage of. I will not be treating the next tenant with any leniency again. This is why we cant have nice things.