I give up on Tenants ! Left in the night again.

[brin]

I just had another tenant, young man 35 yrs. old had a good job as a maintenance supervisor at a big plant . He was divorced but engaged and she broke it off and he went off the deep end. He and I had what I thought to be a good relationship...he had been my tenant for a year and 5 months...his lease was for 1 yr. and 6 months so he left one month early. He did not finish the work he was to do on the house even though he told me it was done... I had tried to inspect the work but he was always working...His references all checked out fine and his previous landlord gave him good marks...

I wonder if there are any honorable tenants out there anymore...?

 

[300UGUY]

I just had another tenant, young man 35 yrs. old had a good job as a maintenance supervisor at a big plant . He was divorced but engaged and she broke it off and he went off the deep end. He and I had what I thought to be a good relationship...he had been my tenant for a year and 5 months...his lease was for 1 yr. and 6 months so he left one month early. He did not finish the work he was to do on the house even though he told me it was done... I had tried to inspect the work but he was always working...His references all checked out fine and his previous landlord gave him good marks...

I wonder if there are any honorable tenants out there anymore...?

I am just starting out as a landlord. My dad has done it for years, but his property in Florida is a different market, more upscale. What I am afraid of is getting somebody in that cannot pay.

 

[bigbull338]

when you have a rent house or houses your going to loose money no matter what you do.we have 1 rent house an have lost an spent more money on it than its made.weve had to redo our rent house twice.

 

[jimmyj]

Sorry to hear about the trouble. But, we rented once and I won't ever ever ever do it again.

 

[bigbull338]

I am just starting out as a landlord. My dad has done it for years, but his property in Florida is a different market, more upscale. What I am afraid of is getting somebody in that cannot pay.

yes you will get lots of renters that cant or wont pay the rent.an they dont care.an youll get those thatll trash out the house.

 

[radioman]

I am too going through tenant troubles. I am convinced its not worth it. problem is if I sell now, I wont be able to recoup costs yet. Last month I just evicted them through the courts and it wasnt pretty. once they were evicted, I found a bunch of hidden problems of house I now gotta fix and still working on it. I figure I have another month worth of work to do and then try to rent it again.

MY advice - stay away from landlording if you can unless you have 10 or more houses to do.

 

[weedpharma]

It is possible to get good tennants. I have a rental unit that I have let for over 10 years with no problems. It is to the same tennant.

We have an understanding that I don't bother her and she doesn't bother me. She pays on time and looks after the unit better than I would. I do not need to do inspections and simply have a look around when I do maintenance.

We have also agreed that I will give her lots of notice if selling and she will give plenty of notice if leaving. Neither of us are plannning any change for years.

Weedepharma

 

[jimmyj]

The only people I know of who have made money on tenanting have been land speculators. Buy a house and keep it for 20 years in an area where it will eventually get torn down and replaced with something really expensive.

The speculators let the house go to heck, and they expect to have to fix it up a few times and to get cheated. But they are in it for the long run.

 

[MotorSeven]

Brin, I can beat your tenant story:

The wife is from a small town in Manitoba. We have a house there and ended up buying two more before the "boom" which was a few years behind the US one. Anyway, this was our first foray into renting. The first house we rented to a young school teacher.....perfect tenant, never missed a payment, always on time, never saw the guy for 5 years. Second house was a nighmare. Could not get tenants to stay long enough to complete a contract and for 3 years we went through a dozen.

But the last ones were the doozies. Boyfriend/girfriend and a cat 2 months in on a 6 month lease. Disappeared on Thanksgiving night(that's Canada's turkey day not ours). Left the turkey IN THE OVEN, most of their clothing and belongings....and the CAT, and the back door was wide open:confused2:
It was like a UFO hovered over the house and beamed them up:laughing: We never heard from them again, but did confirm they were still alive. I am convinced the UFO spit them back out after it got immediate heartburn from eating spoiled IDIOTS.

That was the straw. We sold that house, then when our angel school teacher decided to buy a house, we sold that one too. NEVER AGAIN:thumbsup:

 

[Clint S]

I just had another tenant, young man 35 yrs. old had a good job as a maintenance supervisor at a big plant . He was divorced but engaged and she broke it off and he went off the deep end. He and I had what I thought to be a good relationship...he had been my tenant for a year and 5 months...his lease was for 1 yr. and 6 months so he left one month early. He did not finish the work he was to do on the house even though he told me it was done... I had tried to inspect the work but he was always working...His references all checked out fine and his previous landlord gave him good marks...

I wonder if there are any honorable tenants out there anymore...?

If he was even close on the rent and he left and took his stuff and did not leave the place wrecked consider yourself lucky. We once went over a year trying to get someone out and then the place was trashed. It was a trailer home. With the help from a lawyer we ended giving up on it not paying the taxes and went to the county offices and signed paper work giving up our rights to the property and deeded it to the county. The scum actually got a restraining order on me and I could not go within 100 yards of the place even when it was legally mine. They lived there close to 3 years before the county got them out