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Originally Posted by DaniellaG
Interesting I had never heard of that bad tenant site. Do they have one for landlords too?
I am surprised there are not issues with that site though because what happens if a LL puts a tenant on there but there was false statements?
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I assume they can sue for slender...but if the tenant has a record and the LL has proof than it is not slender but the truth!
We will absolutely not put anybody on there that is not considered a bad tenant and fr us a bd tenant is one who is not paying the rent, breaking the lease, eviction, lying after having moved in and putting more people illegally at the property and/or having different breeds of pets than disclosed and if this results in issues (Pit bulls for example) tenants who leave overnight (also lease break of course), tenants who leave the property in distress.
For all of these items above we have proof and for sure will put them on any bad tenant list we can find.
Usually people will report bad LL to the County for code violations, etc. and/or companies to the BBB or other review websites.
We had one of our owners report us for some BS to the BBB but after we showed proof the BBB refused to take this LL complaint. After all it all comes down to proof and we submitted this owners emails to defendent ourselves which was enough.
In our case bad owners usually are the ones who have a hard time getting good tenant after they had a huge issue with a previous bad tenant and owners like that want to sign a management agreement only to try to get rid of us once they find out the new tenants are good tenants and then owners like that think by giving us a hard time and blamin us for things that aren't there or small repairs they don't want to pay for, that the can get rid of us and by doing so save money and have a quality tenant. That was also the case with this owner.
We had to repair an "eye" for a garage door opener and called with his written permission a licensed garage door company. It was fixed and another item needed to be replaced and the total was $ 240.- for 2 "eyes" and service call, and some rollers. The owner claimed nothing was done and he had video images of nothing being done while we had before and after pictures of the different device that was now in place. Of course rollers are hard to take a picture off. We had an official invoice and company who was willing to talk to the owner but the owner refused and wanted us to eat the bill.
Of course we never got to see the video that can't exist since how can a neighbor across the street have on his video a new set of "eyes" in someone elses garage and it was bluff.
The tenants are on the owners side from day one since they are the worst tenants to have and we warned this owner not to rent to them due to the rap sheet on their background check but with a little higher security deposit and last month rent the owner wanted them since he didn't want any down time. They really are a match in heaven...owner and tenants and a disaster to happen sooner than later. Owner also committed homestead fraud which already has ended
since we submitted signed proof by owner when asked for by the property appraiser of the date we listed it on the MLS and it was listed as vacant in 2012 so the owners claim that he occupied it on January 2013 was a lie.
Two more month and our agreement is over and we just didn't want to give into a bad owner, but after that we are more than happy to have this "professional tenant" take the owner to the dryers since he deserves it. He went to our corporate office to complain and run against a wall since we had proof and even in writing he was asking "what we will do for him to make him happy"...per phone he stated he wants money from us, but on paper he doesn't want to explain it further but the rest of his email is clear of what he wants.
Making false claims on the internet is something one has to think twice about since a slender case can cost more then the short period of fun to lie and making someone look bad!
Even on Face Book and other websites people have to be careful to slender others, because it can come back and karma can be a B....!
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