i want to kill my tenants

nice guys have a hard time being firm with assholes who take advantage of us. i have a couple rentals too and have kept them empty all summer because my last renter left such a mess that i questioned staying in the biz. she was supposed to keep this and the other place clean (is all!) in exchange for half-price rent but i made the mistake of trusting her for the deposit, money she didn't have. she disappeared owing several hundred dollars to me and 350 to the utility company (which the owner is ultimately responsible for here)...iow, close to 900 bucks! but i'm diving back into the landlord biz again but this time no one moves in until the full deposit is paid along with 1st and last month's rent...and as alice cooper stated decades ago; no more mr. nice guy!

You should move over here to FL and buy the house I'm renting. Good landlords are like good tennants. They're hard to find. Unless the floor falls through the house or something, you never hear from me.

good tenants seem like a dream to me...i'd give one a helluva deal in exchange for a year's lease! what i don't understand is they're all wired for high amperage and growers have my blessing yet i can't get a grower to move in and take advatage of the situation! i can even help them get a med use card so they'll be mostly legal (no one stays within the 7 plant at any one time limit here...lol). but all i seem to come across are lazy neo-hippys or meth heads.

My next door neighbours suck. Saturday i look out and parked in my driveway, not at the bottom, but right up at my house at 1 am i see this truck running, and bass pumping. So i go out and and see some sketchy black guy sitting there. Im like "why is there a sketchy a black guy (i didnt use the wrong word, wanted to) parked in my driveway"? Hes like "yo b im waiting for your neighbour". There is an empty street with loads of parking. There is an empty driveway in the baggie pants friends driveway. Yet he parks in mine and cranks bass at 1 am. I considered beating the shit out of his skinny punk ass. If i had come home and had to wait to park in my own driveway would have been on.
In college i had roomate who sucked. Every nite up till morning doing blow shouting making noise. Every nite STFU you selfish prick. Eventually i popped him one in the beak. I moved out and two months later he ripped off my other2 roomates for everything they had as well as oweing a few grand in rent. I did clean the toilet with his toothbrush and send him the pictures like a year later, after i was sure he had used it a while, never responded to my emails though.

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Originally Posted by benagain

You should move over here to FL and buy the house I'm renting. Good landlords are like good tennants. They're hard to find. Unless the floor falls through the house or something, you never hear from me.

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So many people from up here, mostly hispanic move down to florida for the weather, then end up back up in Jersey cause Jersey feels more like home. I don't think I would ever be able to live any place else. The whole attitude around the nyc area is totally differnt then the rest of the world, but there is alot more assholes around here. Dun get me wrong, I love going around the country, going to places where people are so friendly they invite me to stay at their house the day they meet me, but Jersey is meh home. Few months back we went on vacation for like a week, once we got back to jersey we nearly run over this black chick crossing the road, so we stop to let her dumb ass cross, she starts cussing us out, and I'm like, welcome home to jersey!

Love where i live cause it made me who I am ;)

As far as good landlords being as hard to find as good tenants, I say we are some kick ass landlords, but i wish we could have some really cool people living in our house though. I love the feeling of community with the people you live with jsut clickign into your life. Like where I came from before this new town, every night somone was geting stabbed, shot or beat down out on the street, but still, it was a community, despite all the problems that came of the coke and dope out there, the people from the same building always had yoru back.

We allowed these people to do so much because all the storage crap was what they made a living on selling the crap they were geting from god knows where. For all that god damn storage we could have charged them a extra storage fee. I mean, give me a break they made out on the rent nicely they were paying and they still give us an attitude, were we not feeling kind we could have told them either rent a storage bin soemwhere or we raising the rent.

I was telling my friend yesterday, place I used to live at the whole building stole cable through the store downstairs because the owners had alot of friends, including the cable guys. Every once and a while the cable company would go down the street and shut off all stolen cable. Do you think I went and complained about losing my free cable, hell no I was lucky to have it in the first place. Same shit, if your landlords have done every thing under the sun for ya, you dun give em beef about some stupid shit like water coming through your cieling and $10 bucket of paint. Jesus christ, we jsut payed 2,500 for roof repairs and interior repairs due to water dmg from the busted room and they compalin about a bucket of paint!!!!???!!!!!

ohh cool, things look hopefull, jsut went downstairs and they were taking shit out of the basement, maybe they be gone sooner than later chyeah! High point of my day!

Your in America. You can legally stick a shotgun under his chin, and make him beg for his life. Do it [But for christ sake, DONT shoot him lol!!]

It's the best way, and a good way.

Being a landlord is a way to make money. It's not about charity; it never was, and never will be. If you can't take it, maybe you should find another racket.

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Originally Posted by RedLocks

As far as good landlords being as hard to find as good tenants, I say we are some kick ass landlords, but i wish we could have some really cool people living in our house though. I love the feeling of community with the people you live with jsut clickign into your life. ?

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That's how I feel too. Interviewing a tenant is really interviewing a neighbor/housemate/person who shares your home.

I think I'm a nice landlord. I'm trying to get my tenant to stick around after his lease runs out! Hell, every time I make lasagne I make an extra one for the guy who rents from me. He knows that we have a well-stocked medicine cabinet, human and veterinary, and if he or his dogs get injured the just leaves a message that he's going to raid it. We get along great, and his 200 pound English Mastif and 2 American bulldogs help me sleep better at night.

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Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat

Being a landlord is a way to make money. It's not about charity; it never was, and never will be. If you can't take it, maybe you should find another racket.

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I look at it as an opportunity to make the best use of the space in your house, make it easier to pay the bills, and gain another neighbor.
I agree it isn't about charity, but it should be a positive social thing, or neutral at worst.
Then again I'm talking owner-occupied. I used to rent from a narsty slumlord- now, HE had a racket, and it WASN'T positive.