I had a tenant tell me that he was going to pay me, he told me face to face and then we shook on it. Well, a week later I went over to collect and what do you think happened? He did not answer the door, I went in and everything was gone. Skipped out on me owing me $4500. so I spent $2000 on the painting and I will spend about $300 on the carpet, and another $300 on the cleaning. so that's $7100 I am out! Love being a landlord!
Also, if that isn't enough excitement for ya, a tree fell on the garage of another place. the tree is from the lot behind my house, there is no house on it, so I can't go over and knock on the door. No door to knock on! So I have been trying to find this guys number so I can make him clean it up. Also the tree is massive and it has split into 4, growing 4 seperate "trees" 3 have now fallen, the 4th and final is massive and leaning over my house, it is about to fall. I think the next big wind will bring it down onto the house. but i don't have th money to cut this guy down. I need the owner to do it. So yes great fun, in the mean time there is still a massive tree sitting on my garage.
Did I mention the pinhead in 708B? he is suing me cause he fell on the steps. After I have been flexible with this yahoo for years, never pays his portion of the rent on time and often pays a fraction of what it should be. He breaks the doorjams by kicking in the doors, he has destroyed the carpet he has broken all the window locks, he breaks the screens the same days I fix them, so I don't fix them anymore, and now he wants to sue me??? It's a give and take, he just doesn't get it. so I am going to make his life miserable. and then evict his disrespectful ass!!!!
the girl at Arthur place still has not paid me anything. things are bad. she is honest and working really hard to pick up the pieces of her life but I am not getting paid. I run a business, if I don't get paid then i can't pay my bills. I am afraid that I am going to have to evict her even though she is trying so hard to get me money, but it has been 4 months and I don't run a charity!! business is business.
I used to wonder why landlords did very little to make their places look really nice, and now I know why. When I used to fix a place up I would make it so nice, with nice blinds and nice lighting and nice fridge and stove, maybe nice tile, I would take my time and spend money, then a tenant would move in and fuck it all up in 4 months, stop paying me and then move leaving everything all fucked up, costing me more money to clean out their shit and fix everything, and all the nice things I put in were destroyed, so then I would only put in the cheapest thing that just does the job, no flare, no pizazz, no nothing, just the basics. I use to put in the nice carpets, now I put in something that is cheap, hard to stain and a color that you can't see the dirt, like brown or some dark color. No more granite counters! no more custom lighting, no more cool custom glass doors, no new windows cause they just break the locks, (so you have to replace the whole frame) assholes just don't give a shit! so no more nice stuff, it is this that turns well meaning lanlords into slumlords. I have a nice set of cabinets and the doors are all oak matched, and the tenant broke some of the doors off, split them in two somehow. Well the BIG problem with that is they don't make them anymore, so I can't go out and buy a couple of doors, I have to buy ALL the doors so they all match!! so a thing like this ends up costing way more than it seems. But the tenants don't care anyways.
Then when I say that they don't get their deposit back because I have to buy ALL the doors and not just one or two, they bitch and say the doors were cheap and they shouldn't have broken and it's not their fault. man I am so sick of excuses and the lack of accountability. so pathetic.
They break my windows and say, I don't know how that happened, must have been a rock that flew from the street over the house next door then bounced off the ground and hit the window. No you broke it ass! and don't want to be accountable! Can you sense how much fun I'm having???
More landlord fun to come I am sure...stay tuned!
