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why should landlords be made to rent to people that they know are going to trash the place   :dunno:
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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.

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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.

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Because renters have more rights than landlords
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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.

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PostIcon Posted on: Aug. 23 2012,10:15 pm Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
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.

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why should landlords be made to rent to people that they know are going to trash the place   :dunno:

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.   :D

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.

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^ so there's risk involved, I see...

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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.

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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.   :D
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