Cup Runneth Over posted:

Tell your dad that unless he lives there, to save his soul he needs to sell the house to its occupants and get out of the rent seeking game. No matter how good a landlord he tries to be, he'll still be a freeloading parasite keeping someone from owning their own home.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1149668573805068289?s=20

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Don't forget this one

Woozy posted:

wheres the lie though

IAMKOREA posted:

This guys never been to a communist built apartment block. They're a lot nicer than that, and always in a walkable neighbourhood to boot.

DoubleDonut posted:

Hello! I work for the court in North Carolina, and I would like to share some things that landlords have done or said. All of these are things that landlords have either directly testified to in court or verbally admitted to in casual conversation with me.

• Poured bleach into his tenants' well to force them to move out.
  
• Under oath, said "if I'd known intimidation would've worked [to get the tenants to move out], I would've done it a long time ago."
  
• Let themselves into a tenant's apartment with a copy of the key and rifled through the family's clothes drawers, including their teenage daughter's.
  
• Gave a tenant rent credit if she would "be his girlfriend" for a while. (They had an age difference of around 50 years.)
  
• Tried to evict a tenant for letting their apartment get infested with roaches; the tenant replied that this was because an apartment downstairs had been abandoned for months and was infested the whole time. When asked if this was true, landlord responded "Yeah, probably."
  
• Agreed to run a tenant's car for a few minutes every week or so for maintenance while the tenant was out of town for 9 months (note: tenant was paying rent this entire time). Landlord then used the car for his job, which involved refilling vending machines at grocery stores around the state, and put over 100,000 miles on it in under a year.
  
• Threatened a tenant at gunpoint to collect rent that was a few days late.
  
• Evicted a tenant (through normal legal procedure), then before having them removed, signed a new agreement with them (with a signed receipt). Then had law enforcement forcibly remove the tenant on the basis of the first agreement.
  
• Allowed tenants to unknowingly rent and live in a residence that the state health department had explicitly said was not suitable for habitation.
  
• Countless examples of illegally shutting off tenants' power and/or water in the summer.
  

Who wants to guess how many of these landlords faced criminal charges for their actions?

Woof Blitzer posted:

angryrobots posted:

I never wanted to be a landlord.

In 2012 we tried to sell my wife's old house, market was still poo poo, were unsuccessful. Rented it to someone who subletted to some of their family without our knowledge. We found this out after the rent stopped being paid, did the whole eviction thing and had to clean two truck and trailer loads of poo poo out of the property. Also had ~$5k in damages. Took the original renters to small claims court and "won" but never saw a dime (claimed loss on taxes tho iirc).

So this is now 2014 and we're planning to renovate and put it on the market again, I'm at the house working. Get a knock on the door, it's this guy and his preg wife and kid, who really really wants to rent and eventually buy the property. I take this with a grain of salt, but we're not really in a financial position to be funding a reno, so we're amicable to this.

4 years into a 2 year lease-to-own, they're still not in a position to get a mortgage loan apparently, thinks that he can pressure me into a new contract (what?). Of course now he claims the real reason is that our contact agreed upon price of $65k (expired btw but I'm still going to honor both the buy price and the monthly portion that accrued toward closing costs, even past the end of lease, if it will get the drat thing gone) is too high and he's just not going to pay that, it's not worth it.

I disagree with this and give them 3 months to get moved out. I make it very clear that if they want the refundable portion of their deposit back, don't leave any crap I have to haul off. Of course all this is too much - it takes two weeks past the move out date for him to get out, and it's still not everything. I haul off a full truck load of junk, including literally burned up car batteries (wtf) that the county recycling center gave me a lot of trouble about.

Anyhow so he was mad about not getting the deposit back. We immediately started on a full remodel, doing most of it ourselves. It was a very painful process and not cheap, but 8 months later we put the house on the market for just over $95k, and got a full price offer within a week.

gently caress renters. Humanity was a mistake, generally.

Also, I stopped by on the move out date and there was a dog. A week later I came back, no dog but a dog sized dirt mound in the back yard. I'm p sure he offed and buried the poor thing, probably because when you've procrastinated until the very last second it's difficult to find a place in your budget that allows dogs.

uber_stoat posted:

if you want to act like a bloodthirsty ghoul, you probably shouldn't post you face and name along with it. if I wanted to be a naughty boy I could could leave this lady a voicemail right now telling her exactly what I think of her.

Tashilicious posted:

"the concept of the state providing everything for you except you pay 1200 a month for it"

Zenithe posted:

I thought this was a joke quote

The Nastier Nate posted:

While I don't dispute the general accuracy of your comment, the exception is in this case the couple he's renting it too clearly has no interest in buying that house as they are only here temporarily as part of his job, and they'll probably go back to Ohio after the lease is up or maybe the year after.

Moridin920 posted:

I think there's some prorating thing going on in CA yeah. My landlord takes something like 15% off the cost of a full recarpet per year that you're there and I can't imagine they'd do that just to be nice.

Woof Blitzer posted:

Woof Blitzer posted:

Dumb Lowtax posted:

Landlords are a class of people with quite a bit more money than sense, which should be seen as a business opportunity. If anyone signed up for the biggerpockets site and flooded it with links to scams that target property managers they'd probably make a killing. Do they have any kind of a vetting process at all for new accounts? Any anti-spam measures at all?

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TL;DR tenant found asbestos, and won't feel safe until I go to extraordinary lengths and expense to prove the house is safe. I am not going to play this ridiculous game. Asbestos abatement for things that don't lawfully need to be removed is going to be ridiculously expensive. I was told it might cost $20k
House was built in 1966, so a bunch of things were made with asbestos. There was vinyl asbestos tile that was loosely bonded to the concrete, which came up easily in one piece. There was also that black mastic cutback that has asbestos, but the mastic was untouched and not chipping, nor was it sanded or removed.
Nothing was done to reasonably create airborne asbestos.
Tenants ordered their own asbestos test; inspector came out and sampled a bunch of stuff that contained asbestos, which are intact and not illegal to have. Most of the asbestos objects are in the attic. Such as...
-Furnace vent to the roof.
-A few abandoned air ducts left in the attic, not attached to anything.
-central air register to the room- on the attic side, the sheet metal is wrapped in some kind of joint compound white stuff. On the room side, it's sheet metal. So I don't see how asbestos can leak through there.

-They even sampled undisturbed popcorn ceiling. They wasted their money testing something which most likely would have a little asbestos.
Just because something is made of asbestos doesn't mean you have to remove it, particularly if it's still intact, like a vent that blows outward.
According to the inspector, all these things have a fraction of a fraction of a percent of releasing an asbestos fiber and somehow getting into the interior of the house.
After looking at the report, tenants freaked out, and do not feel safe living in the house. They are temporarily staying elsewhere.
They won't feel safe until I spend thousands of dollars to come up with some official report that the house is clean enough to live in.
July 1 is when rent is due, and I told them they don't have to pay it.
But I want them out, and I don't know on what grounds I can terminate the lease.
There's nothing in the contract that says an asbestos home is uninhabitable, otherwise I'd kick the tenants out on those grounds.

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Wait a minute... Your tenants did an asbestos test on your property?
An asbestos test is destructive. The inspector had to cut out and remove pieces of your property and mutilate pieces of your building materials to take them to a lab. Surely you have something in the lease about destruction of property.
The inspector never should have done that job without verifying that they owned the property and had the authority to order it.
Did they give you the report? Make sure that no holes were cut in the roof that will cause leaks. Please keep up posted on how this turns out.
Geordy Rostad, Real Estate Agent

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Dennis M.
Rental Property Investor from Erie, pa replied 13 days ago
I would be furious at this point
I would not remediate anything
I would tell them to pound salt
I would find a way to get rid of these tenants

Captain_Maclaine posted:

My renter's story is mild compared to some since the last apartment I had was pretty nice and the landlord maintained it (likely as his daughter lived in the downstairs unit, but whatever). He was still an rear end in a top hat though. Once the furnace broke in the dead of a Boston* winter and he tried to get me to tell the gas company I smelled a leak so they'd come fix it and he'd not have to hire anyone, and he stiffed us on our security deposit on the way out, the hell with that jackass.

*well, Somerville, but close enough.