Quote:
Originally Posted by redpoint5
Are you a landlord Pawtuckett? My comments are made not out of ignorance, but of experience. My rentals go for about $400/mo and attract the poorest tenants. I once gave a tenant an extra 2 weeks to pay the modest rent, and at the end of the 2 weeks grace, sent notice of eviction for non-payment. My kindness was repaid by hammer holes throughout my walls.
|
It sounds like you need to be pickier about who you rent to, around here people trash the places that have $500 a month utility bills when it only costs $450 to rent the house because it's clear that the land lord doesn't care enough about it make it cost less to live there.
But if you take care of a place and are picky about who lives there then people will seek you out to rent from you and they will stay there for more then a year, someone who lives in a place for more then a year tends to take better care of it as well, costing you less in repairs between renters too.