Topic: rent
started by: twingroves
Posted by twingroves on Aug. 23 2012,7:00 pm
why should landlords be made to rent to people that they know are going to trash the place 
Posted by Self-Banished on Aug. 23 2012,7:39 pm
Actually a landlord may legally discriminate on references, past rental history, credit history etc. Those alone should give one an idea to whom they are renting too.
Posted by ControlledHyperness on Aug. 23 2012,8:04 pm
(Self-Banished @ Aug. 23 2012,7:39 pm)
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Actually a landlord may legally discriminate on references, past rental history, credit history etc. Those alone should give one an idea to whom they are renting too.
Unless your Rainbow Terrace....then you can't.
Posted by digger on Aug. 23 2012,8:32 pm
Because renters have more rights than landlords
Posted by This is my real name on Aug. 23 2012,9:03 pm
A landlord can also rent only by word-of-mouth. My two final landlords did that, without advertising. That way they could pick and choose their tenants and people who might trash it would never even hear of the opportunity.
Posted by Botto 82 on Aug. 23 2012,10:15 pm
There are a lot of background checking services available to landlords, nowadays. They can be helpful in weeding out some of the potentially problem tenants.
Posted by irisheyes on Aug. 25 2012,1:20 am
(twingroves @ Aug. 23 2012,7:00 pm)
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why should landlords be made to rent to people that they know are going to trash the place
I don't see how that's true. How is a landlord going to "know" they're going to trash the place? Best indicator would be the aforementioned background and references, and they can certainly deny rental to someone who doesn't meet their criteria.
Just what people are you referring to, twingroves?
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A landlord can also rent only by word-of-mouth. My two final landlords did that, without advertising. That way they could pick and choose their tenants and people who might trash it would never even hear of the opportunity.
Good and bad tenants alike are going to hear about apartments through word of mouth. I spoke to a woman not too long ago who rented to someone this way, supposedly good people who were a friend of a friend, and the results weren't so good. Lots of damage.
But... I guess if your last two landlords did it this way with success than they're in luck and I'd probably keep up with it hoping my luck would carry on.
I don't envy landlords. Mainly because of the financial risk of a bad tenant. There's damage or illegal activity, chasing them down for the rent now and then, plus the legal cost of evicting one who refuses to leave. Any one of those will lighten their wallet real quick.
Posted by Self-Banished on Aug. 25 2012,4:11 am
^ so there's risk involved, I see...
Posted by This is my real name on Aug. 31 2012,7:05 am
I would never want to be a landlord. Far too many bad renters out there, and far too many laws protecting them - and when they can be successfully evicted, they trash the place before they move out (and somehow feel justified in doing that to their "jerk" of a landlord).I know there are bad landlords, too. Too bad they aren't the only ones stuck with bad tenants. They deserve each other.
Posted by busybee on Sep. 09 2012,1:59 am
Just buy your own place and live in it yourself if you don't want to be a renter or a landlord.
Posted by This is my real name on Sep. 09 2012,5:45 pm
(busybee @ Sep. 09 2012,1:59 am)
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Just buy your own place and live in it yourself if you don't want to be a renter or a landlord.
That's exactly what I did. Looking back on my renting days, I was blessed to have decent, reasonable landlords. Not everyone has that luxury.
I knew someone who was renting a house. Eventually the basement filled up with water, to the point where they couldn't use it. The landlord never had time to come to fix it, so they sent him a check for half the rent and said they'd get the other half when they were once again able to use the other half of the house. He came and fixed it that day.
Posted by Blackdog on Sep. 09 2012,6:05 pm
(This is my real name @ Sep. 09 2012,5:45 pm)
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(busybee @ Sep. 09 2012,1:59 am)
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Just buy your own place and live in it yourself if you don't want to be a renter or a landlord.
That's exactly what I did. Looking back on my renting days, I was blessed to have decent, reasonable landlords. Not everyone has that luxury.
I knew someone who was renting a house. Eventually the basement filled up with water, to the point where they couldn't use it. The landlord never had time to come to fix it, so they sent him a check for half the rent and said they'd get the other half when they were once again able to use the other half of the house. He came and fixed it that day.
Never happened
Posted by This is my real name on Sep. 09 2012,6:37 pm
(Blackdog @ Sep. 09 2012,6:05 pm)
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(This is my real name @ Sep. 09 2012,5:45 pm)
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(busybee @ Sep. 09 2012,1:59 am)
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Just buy your own place and live in it yourself if you don't want to be a renter or a landlord.
That's exactly what I did. Looking back on my renting days, I was blessed to have decent, reasonable landlords. Not everyone has that luxury.
I knew someone who was renting a house. Eventually the basement filled up with water, to the point where they couldn't use it. The landlord never had time to come to fix it, so they sent him a check for half the rent and said they'd get the other half when they were once again able to use the other half of the house. He came and fixed it that day.
Never happened
Yes it did. Truman Thrond was their landlord.
Posted by busybee on Sep. 09 2012,11:44 pm
I'm just saying that if you look hard enough, you can buy your own place,,,yet it all depends upon what motivates you do it. For me, it was offering my children stability and privacy, even as a single parent. With four children to raise on my own without any financial support from their other parent...it would have been easier financially for me to enter into the low income housing available, but instead I choose my kids and their right to have someplace to call home that no one else dictates their lives or mine for that matter because of crappy and nosy neighbors who wouldn't be able to tolerate giggling or sibling disputes from living in an apartment complex.
Furthermore...I don't have to worry about whether or not Mr. or Ms. Nosy thinks I'm cheating the system even though the themselves are because they don't have anything better to do with their lives than to create assumptions about all others instead of doing something productive to improve their own lives.
Posted by This is my real name on Sep. 10 2012,6:14 am
(busybee @ Sep. 09 2012,11:44 pm)
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I'm just saying that if you look hard enough, you can buy your own place,,,yet it all depends upon what motivates you do it.
For me, it was offering my children stability and privacy, even as a single parent. With four children to raise on my own without any financial support from their other parent...it would have been easier financially for me to enter into the low income housing available, but instead I choose my kids and their right to have someplace to call home that no one else dictates their lives or mine for that matter because of crappy and nosy neighbors who wouldn't be able to tolerate giggling or sibling disputes from living in an apartment complex.
Furthermore...I don't have to worry about whether or not Mr. or Ms. Nosy thinks I'm cheating the system even though the themselves are because they don't have anything better to do with their lives than to create assumptions about all others instead of doing something productive to improve their own lives.
For me, it was offering my children stability and privacy, even as a single parent. With four children to raise on my own without any financial support from their other parent...it would have been easier financially for me to enter into the low income housing available, but instead I choose my kids and their right to have someplace to call home that no one else dictates their lives or mine for that matter because of crappy and nosy neighbors who wouldn't be able to tolerate giggling or sibling disputes from living in an apartment complex.
Furthermore...I don't have to worry about whether or not Mr. or Ms. Nosy thinks I'm cheating the system even though the themselves are because they don't have anything better to do with their lives than to create assumptions about all others instead of doing something productive to improve their own lives.
Self-motivation is a wonderful thing. Kudos.
From what I've heard over the years from various people who have lived in low-income multi-tenant dwellings, they're even worse than you described. Pits of despair and self-entitlement, resenting anyone who tries to climb out of it.
Posted by busybee on Sep. 14 2012,1:42 am
Thank you...This is my real name! I would agree with you...there is a lot of resentment out there and a whole lot of assumptions!
I respectfully attempt to disregard anyone on this forum.because they assume to know me better than I know myself, what motivates me and how much effort I apply myself to living a productive life today, just because I disclosed that my children and I have survived domestic abuse/violence in the past.
I do that for my children mostly because today is no different than yesterday and tomorrow has now become less likely for them to have any HOPE that they will ever KNOW what it's like to have TWO equally motivated parents instead of just ONE parent who thinks of them before anyone, including themselves.