LogFAQs > #960723030

Yeah renting out your property is a bit of a gamble. Even with interviews and background checks, you could end up with deadbeats who don't pay, or assholes who trash the apartment. In my experience it's been mostly positive, though I did have one couple who literally destroyed the fucking place. Like, holes in walls, shattered toilet, water damage from said toilet, left their broken furniture and trash everywhere, ashes everywhere and odor from cigarettes/weed, dogshit on several parts of the floor (at least I hope it was dogshit lol)

I pay a dude to spruce up an apartment after a tenant leaves. Normally it's a little grout and paint, maybe fix a faucet or something. I have never kept a deposit for what I consider "normal" wear and tear. I'll forgive stuff that seems accidental/unintentional from tenants as long as they were decent tenants. This particular time I had to have major renovation done. Needless to say I kept their deposit.

A copycat topic cropped up and I'll say that is a fair point. Just as there are shitty tenants out there, there are certainly shitty landlords. It works both ways. When I used to rent I mostly had good experiences but I did stay one place where the landlord would take his sweet time fixing shit, and was renting out the basement illegally (I was renting the first floor, but the basement "apartment" had only one viable means of egress and if there were ever a fire that kid down there might've been screwed. On top of that, it had no kitchen. The kid ordered takeout most meals or cooked in a microwave/hot plate).

So yeah, fair point. There are bad landlords, too.

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