thankless

I got a text, oh yes I mostly get texts now, email second and rarely phone calls. But I texted a tenant and asked if they were planning on paying rent. He texts me back and tells me this whole line o crap about how it is illegal for a landlord to not provide heat and that I need to decide if I want to receive rent or not. WTF????? After I have taken care of them, they got cockroaches, I got the exterminator, the tenant upstairs was loud and they were going to move because of it, so I reduced their rent by $100, I promised them that if another 3 bed comes up I would let them have it as soon as one is available. So they are paying squat for this, and the roommate with kids moved out upstairs, so the noise has been cut in half, and they don't appreciate it. I have gone over two times to show the guy how to light the pilot if it gets blown out. And he just can't do it, so everytime he wants me to drive an hour spend 5 minutes lighting it, then drive an hour home!!! So he won't help me, then he said it went out I said ok I'll try to make it, he said ok. then I told him I couldn't make it, I don't hear from him again. I figured he must have worked it out. then I never get rent. so I text him and I get all that crap. I was pissed!! PGE will do it for fuckin free! thankless!!! so I paid a guy to go out and light the pilot and he charged me $75 to do it, and now the dickweed still has not sent a check. Now I have to threaten eviction!
It is a totally thankless job. So now there is no fuckin way I will alert them to a new 3 bed. No way, if anything I am now going to think about how soon I can get rid of them.
it's a give and take deal.

UPDATE: 5-1-2012:
So the tenants I discussed earlier about the heater, are now being total assholes. They don't tell me that the heater is not working, yes they told me but then I would go over and light it. What they don't tell me is that it goes out shortly after that, they just stew and get pissed at me. It is their fault for not telling me WTF is going on, I don't live there I have no way of knowing that it went out after I lit it. the last time I paid a guy to light it and he said it was working, so I assumed it was fixed. Well, 3 weeks go by, and then I don't get rent, when I ask about the rent they blast me about how it's illegal to not have heat etc. Anyways, now I have contacted people to get it fixed. But they are now saying they shouldn't have to pay for the two months there was no heat. and preaching to me about the laws of housing etc. they have no idea how many times I've been to court on this very type of thing. Each time in court the judge said to them "you still have to pay rent". See if they don't pay me then I don't fix things. Anyways this fuckin shit sucks, i can't stand being a landlord. It's their fault I didn't know it wasn't working. I may just evict them to get them the hell out of there.

UPDATE: 6-1-2012: so I finally got this fixed, and they said they would send a check. As of today no check. What a scam. I sent the repairman out there no less than 5 times and each time he said it worked. And then it didn't. Unbelievable. but now it works and no check. I smell an eviction coming on.