It sucks being a landlord when......

[LandCruiserPhil]

you are forced to deal with tenent problems and miss CM06.

After 16 years of rental property I have locked my first tenent out today. The constable shows up and gives you 5 minutes to get what you can and tells you to leave and if you comes back you will arrested. I feel like s*** having to do it but it needed to be done. Watching the guy load he dogs in the front seat of his truck and driving off with everthing he owns locked up was a bad experience and I hope I never need to do it again. There will be more drama before it complete but today will be hardest.

 

[archie]

Don't fell sorry for the guy. He could have left the building a long time ago with all his junk, but he decided to push his luck and have you go thru all the the BS with court. Not only are you out of rent, you are out on time and court costs for the eviction. In my opinion, he got what he deserved. It still sucks being a landlord when people can't do the right thing when they can't pay.

 

[Tools R Us]

That sucks, but has to be done, too bad it had to be this week.

 

[goodtimes]

I've said it before, and it still holds true....People suck.

 

[brittan]

I am sure you gave they guy a fair shake...Good luck with the next one...

 

[DBAX]

FWIW Phil, there's a Nissan event in MOAB the 20-27th. I rented a house for the week and one room's open the last TH and FRI.. If you want it (gratis), you only need to make the trip

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

FWIW Phil, there's a Nissan event in MOAB the 20-27th. I rented a house for the week and one room's open the last TH and FRI.. If you want it (gratis), you only need to make the trip

I would love to take you up on the offer but I will be fishing in the Chesapeake Bay.
Cant win! I would like to put together a CSC Moab run in late summer

 

[Tools R Us]

I would like to put together a CSC Moab run in late summer

Sounds good, I already miss Moab and haven't left yet!

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

Sounds good, I already miss Moab and haven't left yet!

YA Like I can feel you pain and you pictures suck

Do I sound Butt hurt

 

[RHINO]

phil if you do a moab run late summer consider the end od Aug. will ya?? i will be driving the pig up to colorado for a couple weeks and could easily stop at moab for a spell.

 

[DSRTRDR]

Sounds good, I already miss Moab and haven't left yet!

Same here

 

[just-john]

When they have to go they have to go=He would do the same thing to you and not think twice about it.Nobody rides for free

 

[Brian Macgyver]

You're right Phil. It feels lousy to be tough. I have helped plenty of folks down on their luck. I find that 50% of them are there because of a personal attitude or bad habit that keeps them there. You "owe" them something in their minds. If they fail to correct that attitude you have to cut the string or go down with them.
It is always a bad feeling to have to do that.

 

[Brian Macgyver]

You're right Phil. It feels lousy to be tough. I have helped plenty of folks down on their luck. I find that 50% of them are there because of a personal attitude or bad habit that keeps them there. You "owe" them something in their minds. If they fail to correct that attitude you have to cut the string or go down with them.
It is always a bad feeling to have to do that.[/QUOTE]


Posted a reply last night. I am interested to see your reaction.

We bought our house near a school and made sure that we had an extra room in it. Over 13 years we have traded that room to a succession of young women in exchange for regular housekeeping. We offer them a place and they clean up the house. It is a great arrangement. There have been 10 of them over the years. Of that number seven have done well and have usually ended up earning as much or more than I do. One stole from us, and two just never "got it".
While we can be gratified that we have put several young women thru school, the failures glare. There will always be a certain share of the people who will never "get it".

When you become a landlord, a helper, or a church lady, you must accept that a certain share of the people will never "get it". They will never support themselves no matter how hard you try to teach them.
You cannot blame yourself for this, nor can you reasonably stress about the measures that you are forced to take to protect yourself from those who fail to be responsible for themselves.

 

[DSRTRDR]

There is not all that much difference between being a landlord or an employer/supervisor: people have responsibilities or job descriptions, those that fail to perform in the longer run will be out of luck........

it is never fun for me to fire someone, but it has to be done when it's time to maintain the morale of the team (or the landlord's income and upkeep as it were).
the first time is the hardest (isn't that a Clay Stevens song - man, I am obviously old, he doesn't even go by that name anymore )

what surprises me, though, is that many don't see it coming (as if they live in a different reality ) - wonder if that was the case here?

Don't fret, Phil; I am sure you did this because it needed to be done........

 

[Brian Macgyver]

Landlord, employer or helper, it is all the same. 2-3 of every ten will never get it. When you call them on it you are considered scum. You are a bad-bad man when your ability to pay your bills becomes more important than their ability to lean on you for undeserved support. Your ability to pay is necessary to your ability to support those who depend on you, while you depend on everyone to pay a share so that you can afford to pay.
An unsung but wise man once told me that the world owes you nothing. He said that you are not even owed air to breath, and if you refuse to puff up your chest and take a breath for yourself, you will die! Everything that you get, you earn by personal effort.

 

[BMAN]

SNIP...
what surprises me, though, is that many don't see it coming (as if they live in a different reality ) - wonder if that was the case here?

........

This is fact. The last guy I fired told me he thought he was doing a good job. I explained to him that me having to check then re-do every single job he worked on was not a good job. It was simply wasting resources. Then he has the balls to show up and apply for the job posting to replace him. Some people just don't get it.

 

[DSRTRDR]

Then he has the balls to show up and apply for the job posting to replace him. Some people just don't get it.

I had exactly the same experience, go figure

 

[msahr]

Then he has the balls to show up and apply for the job posting to replace him. Some people just don't get it.

That is absolutely classic! The lengths people go to... If they spent as much energy working as they do trying not to work or escape the "system" think what they could do!

 

[msahr]

An unsung but wise man once told me that the world owes you nothing. He said that you are not even owed air to breath, and if you refuse to puff up your chest and take a breath for yourself, you will die! Everything that you get, you earn by personal effort.

My x-wife could learn from that.