Why do people not like landlords? (managers, condo, property, contractors)
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I often see on social media people hating on landlords and never really understood that. Nobody is stopping someone from buying a home. You either can't afford to buy, don't want to buy or are too lazy to buy, either way the landlord is providing you a home which you have to pay for.
It just seems like such a simple concept and I don't understand the hate. If you're unhappy with your specific landlord then move somewhere else.
I never been a fan of private landlords from experience because they don't like when you have maintenance issues
I only would rent in a high rise ….we have 320 apartments and full time maintenance crews …need anything done , a request form gets them there next day .
No the landlord only needs to repair the old stove to function, not necessarily buy a new one.
A lease can specify whether or not the ac units are covered. I have some leases where appliances are not provided, but because I had some I put them in the unit with the tenants understanding it was not included, just free use and they are responsible for any repairs or replacement. Read you lease.
Did you not notice no heat when you did your walk through?
I did not notice no heat since I was more concerned at that time about having ac to stay cool. I moved there May 2018 when the weather was beginning to get hot. However, all landlords also need to provide heat for the winter since it gets cold throughout most of the US between October through April. I've lived in so many apartments and this is the first one which does not provide any heating.
In any business as soon as it become us vs them game over.
If tenants are constantly trying to pull stuff, destroy property, evade rent(normal times as well) etc of course they're not going to think highly of tenants. And if landlords evade repairs and ignore problems along with raising rents for doing or giving nothing to tenant the landlord will become the enemy.
It's either a game or business relationship. You chose
Yes and No. Withholding rent is a double edge sword. it can bite the tenant in the butt, leaving a permanent scar. Here's a scenario:
My air conditioner went out. You live in Phoenix Arizona. The high for the next couple weeks are topping 115+ degrees. You have gone without a/c for going on a week. You have reached out, emailed, texted and called the landlord who promises a repair soon, but nothing happens. You even sent a certified notice of the issue and yet, you are still waiting. You would love to just move, but you are mid way into a 12 month lease. You are stuck. You then decide to withhold rent until the issue is resolved. This goes on past the rent due date. The a/c has now been broken for two or three weeks. Then today you receive a notice of eviction. The tenant contests it in court and regardless of whether or not the judge overturns or enforces the eviction doesn't matter. That eviction is now linked to that tenant. The tenant is now having to explain to every single landlord going forward, as to why he had to go to court, and that is assuming that the landlord will hear him out.
You need to know your rights under the law. I am moving to Phoenix soon. I've read the laws. Air Conditioning during the heat is considered necessary, and you have a right, ten days after reporting it in writing, to either have it fixed out of your own pocket and then deduct the cost from your rent, OR, to terminate your lease without penalty and leave.
You do not have the right to just live with it and not pay rent, except insofar as there has been an eviction moratorium...but personally...well, I saw this moratorium as a means to protect desperate people from winding up on the street. I'm not desperate. I did not assume that there were no consequences to a renter's credit or history from just not paying rent because the government did this. I've paid my rent on time, the whole time, but I was also fortunate enough not to be impacted much by Covid.
The way I saw it, this moratorium was not for someone like me. I would hope that those in truly dire straights got some relief, but I didn't need it.
Also, I should clarify something... I've said before that I've had great experiences with Mom & Pop type landlords. The ones I'm thinking of, were people who had regular jobs, they did not rent property to get by. Both of the good ones I'm thinking of, just found themselves in life circumstances of owning a place they didn't need to live in, and deciding that renting it out was the right choice at the time. Both lived locally, both had significant "handyman" skills and were right there to fix anything that went wrong, or hired someone promptly if it came to that. Both appreciated good tenants, and neither raised the rent (not that I think they were obligated to keep it where it was at, but I'm saying that we appreciated one another...it was a good relationship.) I viewed them as friends after living in their rental property for some 5 years or so in each case. However, PRIOR to all that when I was much younger, I did rent from a private owner who was a slum lord. Just no two ways about it. I don't know if anyone is familiar with Cincinnati, but this was in the East End down by the river in the late 90s. And this dude bought dilapidated piles that should have been condemned and rented them out. I'm not sure if they were even up to code, there were unsafe conditions. It was bad. Very bad.
But he was not some regular guy who just happened to have a house to rent out. He chose this as a way of life, he was a really shady guy, and this was how he was making his living, him and his obnoxious wife. I believe he also was a drug dealer, so... Yeah. My life as an impoverished young adult. Oh well, I survived.
But to circle back to what I started this post with, the air conditioning and tenants rights laws, I don't think that any government regulation that protects consumers against predatory or exploitative business practices is some kind of evil socialist plot. The government has a role to prevent the water from being poisoned, the landlords from taking advantage of desperate poor people by putting them and their kids into serious danger in unsafe conditions, and other ways in which those in positions of relative power can and will put those in relatively less power in harm's way just to make a buck. Our government is SUPPOSED to be by, for and of the people...and it should protect the people.
And no, the landlord's right to be profitable should not trump the tenant's right to a habitable and safe dwelling. Like if a restaurant can't afford to pay for the electricity to properly refrigerate perishables for food safety, then they don't need to be in business. And some localities are more sensible than others about tenant's rights. Colorado Springs is not the best. We have a problem here, where if meth is produced in a rental property, the owner or manager has no obligation to not rent it out or to even disclose that, but if it's found that anyone is dwelling in it, the city can force them out. They have to leave all of their "contaminated" belongings, and go, and they are not provided for with any alternative housing or compensation. So it is on the renters here, to check a public record provided by city law enforcement, to be sure that they are not renting or moving into an unremediated meth house. Only a lot of people don't even know about that.
That is a city that is failing its people, in my opinion.
Gosh, that's a shame. When you first looked at the apartment, the apartment was huge, the building was beautiful to look at, the neighborhood was spotlessly clean, and the neighbors were all classy people who spoke in dulcet tones in perfect Oxford English. There was no loud music and no loud cars. No drunks, or smokers. or stray destructive kids within miles.
The you signed the lease and poof, like magic everything changed the very same day.
You picked a ghetto area and are now unhappy because it doesn't meet some upper middle class standards?
Sorry, but you saw the apartment, you saw the neighborhood, you saw and heard the people, the cars, and the kids before you rented. If all of that was unacceptable, you should have moved on to the next location and rented somewhere else, instead of signing a lease in an area that caused you to be miserable.
It's not all on me. My uncle found this apt for me a little over a month after relocated to the Dallas area in April 2018. I didn't care much for it when I initially saw it but my uncle kept pushing me to move there since it had the lowest rent and a private entrance with no one living above or below.
It's not all on me. My uncle found this apt for me a little over a month after relocated to the Dallas area in April 2018. I didn't care much for it when I initially saw it but my uncle kept pushing me to move there since it had the lowest rent and a private entrance with no one living above or below.
How old are you? Yes, it is on you. Unless you were a child and somehow your Uncle forced you to sign the lease but that wouldn’t have been legal. Maybe your Uncle didn’t want you living with him anymore. Otherwise if you had been there a month already why didn’t you stay where you were until you found something you liked and could afford? You made this choice.
I never been a fan of private landlords from experience because they don't like when you have maintenance issues
If by private LLs you mean smalltime LLs who serve as their own property managers, I'd agree in the sense that smalltime LLs are probably less likely to have adequate funds to make repairs.
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