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[ScottAR]

You guys need a landlord lobby! In AR, the civil process takes 10 days. The criminal process takes 5 or 7days I can't remember, never had to use the criminal. Either way, the sheriff excutes the paperwork for a small fee.

Get the deadbeats out before they can tear up too much...

 

[Kendall69]

Man, can I tell some renter stories, that's why I got out of the landlord business. Just when I thought I couldn't be screwed again, I was proved wrong.

Seems bad renters have a system and they pass on the tips on how to take advantage of landlords, they also know the "system" better than anyone.

 

[D7E]

Once used a backhoe to remove tennant trash .
Many years ago a bunch of hippies in a mobile home type thing came looking for casual labour on our farm so for $40 a day they did all the jobs our boys don't like doing , Pressure washing , Picking rocks this kind of thing . 2 weeks into the deal tools started dissapearing ....I know.."I told you it would happen"
and when we told them to leave they tried claiming all kinds of rights so the old man helped their winnibago back out to the highway with a JCB backhoe ?
....Quite a mess ..?

 

[mjncad]

I'm so glad I'm not a landlord. I've yet to hear anyone say anything positive about being one.

 

[ScottAR]

That's mostly because it's human nature to complain about one's job sometimes.

Every job has it's headaches... Landlording is no exception.
Every job has it's rewards... Again no exception.

 

[California]

I'm so glad I'm not a landlord. I've yet to hear anyone say anything positive about being one.

Like Scott said, it's just a job. If you plan well and approach it rationally then the harder you work the more money you can make.

A little secret: Improve property. Your next tenant will gladly pay more. The higher rents multiply to a sharply higher listing price when you sell.

Landlords cry when they tell you about facing tenants but few cry about the gain they make when they sell.

For me, three years working as a Carpenter plus simultaneously assembling and improving a little rentals empire (9 units, including the duplex unit we occupied) carried me from a recent graduate with no savings, to the point where the rentals paid my way through grad school as a full time student. Later as I divested and carried part of the financing, that made the down and payments on a nice home plus was the core of the retirement savings I enjoy today.

The first year was a high-stakes gamble, the years I operated units was simply a job, but then the rest has been easy money.

I would do it again if I had to ... I hope I never have to!

 

[ScottAR]

What California said...

Folks have been making payments on properties for my family and I to have.
All I have to do is keep them in good repair and carefully choose who will live there.

One day they will pay for my retirement and maybe some toys along the way.

 

[mjncad]

California and ScottAR:

I'm glad it worked out well for you. You are the exceptions to the rule.

 

[tallyho8]

California and ScottAR: I'm glad it worked out well for you. You are the exceptions to the rule.

I believe it is the rule, not the exception to the rule. We (landlords) just like to brag about the abilities we have to deal with the morons and their destructive acts that we encounter ever so often.

I know I would not have nearly what i have today if I had not invested in rental properties and I don't believe I personally know one person who is well off financially who has not invested in real estate. (I know one person who won $12,000,000.00 in the lottery 10 years ago and is already broke. He did not invest in real estate)

 

[Harvey7]

Vermont law requires that landlords return or store all a vacated tenant's belongings. So when I finally got rid of my deadbeat tenant from Heck I paid a moving company to take EVERYTHING to their new place. All the junk they left behind, the rusted exercise equipment they left outside, the mouse turds from the kitchen drawers, even the 45 garbage bags they had dragged into the woods instead of taking to the dump.

The best part was I was prohibited from sorting thru their possessions, so every single bag was delivered to them and carefully put under cover in their new garage.

It was worth every cent it cost me!

Boonbox, good to see you are a law abiding citizen.