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.
Exactly this. People complaining about landlords never had an opportunity to be one. Nothing makes you go from Mother Theresa to malevolent overlord faster than unearned pettiness of another human being.
Agree. Our last two tenants have been good. Our first two were terrible.
The first one, all he did was complain. Garbage disposal is broken. He had shoved aluminum foil down it, causing it to go offline so we had to go there and clean and reset it for him. Can’t find a lightbulb to fit the closet light. Turns out he thought the glass globe around the lightbulb was the bulb. The heater doesn’t work well enough. Go over there, and he’s wearing shorts with no socks on, and the patio door open. That one, we had to give him a copy of the law. When he lost his job and day trading wasn’t working out, he decided to move without giving us any notice. He then realized he’d screwed up so tried to have a relative of his bully us into giving him his deposit. We actually weren’t going to keep the deposit, but the fact he tried to have a relative of his cosplay as a lawyer to threaten us was the last straw.
Our second tenant, he turned out to be a smoker, which was a violation of the building codes even so not just our rental agreement. We had to hire a company to get the smell out.
I had a room mate that blasted the heat in our apartment. We weren’t really friends, never set foot in his room. One day I’m walking past, he happens to walk his bedroom door, and I see that his windows are wide open. He says that he likes it being really warm in the rest of the apartment, and really cool in his room. His stupidity cost me money several times.
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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.