Do you like your landlord? and if your a landlord do you like your tenants?

Question

About 90% of my tenants are decent people trying to make a honest living. I treat them with respect and they do the same for me.

There are those other 10% that drive me nuts, always looking for a free ride. Today I served one family with a 20 day notice to vacate the property due to "disturbing the peace" and a "rent balance not being paid". They owe me $80.00 for the remaining balance in April 2006. They are screaming the "racist card" now.

I actually didnt have to give them 20 days, but what the hell, maybe they'll move and we wont have to go to court.

Tennessee state law states, that I dont have to give them a reason, but I'll have to give them 30 days to get out as long as they are on a month to month lease contract and they are.
But I have reasons...

Answer 1

My landlord is great. She is very friendly and is always willing to help. She is also a very hard worker. Once I called her because there were some young boys smoking pot in our courtyard and she was in the courtyard one minute after we hung up. I have no complaints.

Answer 2

My Dad is a private landlord and the awesome people he rented easily one of his homes out to were Vietnamese drug sellers lol, they under no circumstances paid their lease so my Dad issued them a observe of eviction and they had to discover decision accommadation interior 2 months, after no reply he went round to the homestead, he went interior and they'd disconnected the electrical energy meter so that they did not pay for the electrical energy they used and had tinfoil all up the wallsto reflect the mild and distinct tube lighting fixtures in each and every room except one the position they lived and slept (5 of them in a unmarried room because the different 4 rooms were full of weed flowers. besides they'd gone at this element there have been in simple terms empty bags of fertiliser and some hashish leaves on the floor.

Answer 3

I rent my home from a relative and rent several other homes to tenants. By and large we are friends. We did have one tenant who started to have problems after a few years and started paying late. He then seemed to be having mental problems, too.
during his times of problem, he and his wife had a baby. He moved out and we were mystified as to what the black sooty stuff was on the walls and ceiling throughout the house. Within six weeks he had been arrested for growing mushrooms in his new rental home. It was the largest mushroom bust in the state! We had to rip out the sheet rock and put a lot of resources into fixing that house.

Good luck with your eviction. It is unfortunate when it comes to that. The worst is getting rid of trailer homes in trailer parks. In our state if a trailer is abandoned and the owner doesn't turn over the title, there is no legal way to move it off the lot to re-rent the lot.

Come to think of it, I took care of our tenants dogs and cats this summer for free. She sells the stuff I crochet at craft fairs for me.

Answer 4

My landlord is fantastic. He always fixes any problems in my apartment within a day or two of me contacting him, and he keeps the rent VERY reasonable. The only qualm I have is that my neighbors are extremely loud, and all he has done is put up signs reminding of noise rules. (I haven't complained about them, but I know others have.)

Answer 5

I started out liking my landlord, now that I am in my new house, everything he promised me he would fix or install, 2 months later I am still waiting. He always says, next week for sure. He is not a man of his word, is that not all we have left these days. OUR WORD! it use to mean something.

Answer 6

I have no problems with my landlords. They are a great husband/wife team. Their office is two doors down from mine and when I worked nights she made sure nobody knocked on my door during the morning. And he has helped me out a couple of times with my computer.

Answer 7

i HAVE no landlord! it rox! i can do what i want with my yard! but i did used to have one. her daughter was and still is my best friend! so we got by OK.