Renters

After renting houses mobile homes and trailer spaces off and on since 1965 here is my profile of renters in general.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
case1*Rented a trailer lot.The guy goes to work.When he came home that evening the trailer was gone.His wife decided to leave him and took trailer and all with her.
case2*Rented moblie home and included elect. in the rent.Got an elect. bill for over $300.Pretty high for back in 1967.Was running the AC 224/7 with all the windows & doors. wide open.
case3*Rented another lot.The guy got behind on rent because he found out the water well pump was connected to his Electric Meter.and was refusing to pay the rent.To make him happy I disconnected the pump from his meter.The next day he was on my case because he didn't have any water.I told him if he wanted water the pump had to be hooked back up to the meter.He wouldn't let me do that so a day or 2 later he skipped out owing me 3 months back rent because he did not have the water.
case4* Sued a renter for unpaid lot rent won the case.They had no money so they gave me the trailer.After selling the trailer I still lost about $500.oo
case5*Was renting a house.Gas line went bad.Spent $700 to put new one in.Two weaks later the renter moved out.Never did recoupe any of the $700.
case6*Less than a year later the same thing happened at another house.Wasn't about to spend another $700 and take a chance the renter would move out again.Told the people the place was no longer available to rent and never rented it again!case7*Rinters have had friends drop off appliances at the place and it cost me $5 each to have them hauled away.

 

After 37 years of experience I have more clues than you can shake a stick at.

How many years of experience do you have as a landlord.??????

 

Case8*The one that

 

CASE 8*
The one that caused me to get out of the rental business.

Rented a house to a girl.She later let her boyfriend move in with her.

This guy was a con the landlord expert.
Next thing I know he has her file a complaint against me with the court concerning a list of trumped up failure to repair items.When a tenant does this the monthly rent is supposed to be paid to the court.She was already 2 months past due on the rent when she did this.She never did pay a dime of rent to the court.The only way out of this is eviction,but you can't do that because it's called retaliation and carries heavy fines if you try to evict.
In essence I was stuck forever with a non paying renter who was trashing the place and no way out of the situation.All I could do was set back and watch.

There are con artist like that who live rent free by moving from landlord to landlord pulling this scam.
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I have just given 8 examples of why landlords do the background and credit checks.

These kind of things have happened to to many landlords to often.
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IF renters had policed there own ranks perhaps the checks would not have become necessary.

I can't feel to sorry for renters as they are just reaping what they have sown:

 

People on the landlord thread were wanting to know why landlords pull credit and back ground checks.

 

Wasn't posting about slumlords how did you come up with that in this post.?

 

Didn't say it was.

 

The were talking about pulling credit reports on renters so why don't this have anything to do with credit?