Who rents?

[Maluco]

Fucking people man.. Fix the shit yourself and attach the receipts to the rent check. You'd rather live in scum, waiting around for him to send someone-Than just man up and fix it. This i dont understand. After all, its you that has to live there.

If he bitches you have the upper hand, bottom line. Its his responsibility. He probably wont considering he didnt have to pay labor.

You must work in something related, lol.

I agree though and more than anything don't want anyone in my pad that I don't have to have there.

Furthermore, I always change the locks on the apartments I move into. I also advise the office to give me advance notice of any need they may have to come into my apt under the premise of not wanting any issues arising from my dogs, which roam free in my apt. The advance notice, also let's me plan on being home and/or quickly changing the locks back to the original.

One time, I got a call from the office asking me why I had changed my locks and not provided them the copy of the key. My response, "the key was giving me some problems this past weekend so I just changed it myself and had yet made it to the office with the copy, now please tell me why you were attempting to enter my apt without the advance notice we had agreed upon?"

[b*saint]

Well we want to buy a house but we haven't settles on where in the states to live. With my job I can live anywhere. We're thinking Riverside county because the housing market did so bad there, houses are cheap. And there are some nice places around there. I like the most that Chaparral's is right down off 215 in San Bernardino.

[dashboardmonkey]

OP, you are preaching to the chior, my landlord sucks.

I have to do all my own repairs around here. I don't mind because I like fixing shit, I just wish they would pay for materials some times.

[Jonny Cash]

OP, you are preaching to the chior, my landlord sucks.

I have to do all my own repairs around here. I don't mind because I like fixing shit, I just wish they would pay for materials some times.

They have to pay for materials, they have no choice. My landlord is a cheapskate little pipsqueak too, and I curse him out every time I get on the phone with him about how cheap he is. He bends over and takes it because he'd rather have me just send him a bill for the repair labor free, than some soft handed tenant who harrasses him for every stupid little repair.

This place was a shithole when we first came, but it fit our criteria and my wife loved it having ocean access and all. Between gutting half the drywall in here, new trim, closet doors, and the whole thing painted just to make it livable. He paid about 1/2 the price he wouldve paid another contractor, and I put considerable value on this dump so he cant complain.

[mrsleeve]

I did the same thing to the last place we were in. The materials alone paid our rent for 18 months. He was kinda pissed that we were not cutting him a check every month. Ended up as soon as we got it done we had to leave (family deal move outta state) and now hes charging nearly double our rent after we put a TON of value into it.

They have to pay for materials, they have no choice. My landlord is a cheapskate little pipsqueak too, and I curse him out every time I get on the phone with him about how cheap he is. He bends over and takes it because he'd rather have me just send him a bill for the repair labor free, than some soft handed tenant who harrasses him for every stupid little repair.

This place was a shithole when we first came, but it fit our criteria and my wife loved it having ocean access and all. Between gutting half the drywall in here, new trim, closet doors, and the whole thing painted just to make it livable. He paid about 1/2 the price he wouldve paid another contractor, and I put considerable value on this dump so he cant complain.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Well we want to buy a house but we haven't settles on where in the states to live. With my job I can live anywhere. We're thinking Riverside county because the housing market did so bad there, houses are cheap. And there are some nice places around there. I like the most that Chaparral's is right down off 215 in San Bernardino.

You don't want to live that close. Look into Hemet, Menefee, Corona, Rialto/Colton.

I'll tell ya why, I've been around the area near Chaparral's many times, most of them to buy drugs.

[bwanac]

My landlord is a good guy. iIn fact he likes when I bring up problems so he can keep his property in good shape and his tenants happy.

[rwh11385]

I'm a landlord. I hope my tenants are not on forums complaining about me.

[b*saint]

You don't want to live that close. Look into Hemet, Menefee, Corona, Rialto/Colton.

I'll tell ya why, I've been around the area near Chaparral's many times, most of them to buy drugs.

O yea I agree. I dont want to live that close to San Bernardino.

[dashboardmonkey]

They have to pay for materials, they have no choice. My landlord is a cheapskate little pipsqueak too, and I curse him out every time I get on the phone with him about how cheap he is. He bends over and takes it because he'd rather have me just send him a bill for the repair labor free, than some soft handed tenant who harrasses him for every stupid little repair.

This place was a shithole when we first came, but it fit our criteria and my wife loved it having ocean access and all. Between gutting half the drywall in here, new trim, closet doors, and the whole thing painted just to make it livable. He paid about 1/2 the price he wouldve paid another contractor, and I put considerable value on this dump so he cant complain.

tthey can also kick me out for any reason they want

i don't think they would like all my shit cars out front either

[Jonny Cash]

Most people have lease agreements. I shouldnt of assumed.

[dashboardmonkey]

yeah, i live month to month

it blows paying all this money for living and having nothiung to show for it

[mrsleeve]

BE like me then, pay for a place at home to keep all my shit then live outta hotels 9 months a year at 1200+ a month on top of that.

yeah, i live month to month

it blows paying all this money for living and having nothiung to show for it

[z31maniac]

it almost seems inevitable. neighborhoods seem to go thru cycles. i grew up in a very modest neighborhood on the edge of minneapolis. everyone bought their house new (my parents) because it was a new community. it was always well kept but certainly not fancy. typical 50's post war housing.... go back there today and its like a fucking ghetto. but it took 60 years to get that way.

This neighborhood is about 30 years old, so I'm hoping we will be out before it starts to go downhill.

I'm hoping in 5 years, I'll be debt free and making a bit more change, then we will build a house on some land where are going to stay.

You could start snatching them up. Slum lord?

I'm not interested in dealing with renters.

Period.

[Ryan Stewart]

try being on the other end. the majority of renters are low life fucking scumbags who have no respect for anything. thats why neighborhoods with high rental numbers are shitholes. work your ass off, buy a house and make it nice and then complain about the lowlife creeping into your hood. its the american way

Word. With all of the HOAs they seem to be sackless when it comes to renters. Back in the 50s they feared a black family moving in. Now its a "For Rent" sign.

it almost seems inevitable. neighborhoods seem to go thru cycles. i grew up in a very modest neighborhood on the edge of minneapolis. everyone bought their house new (my parents) because it was a new community. it was always well kept but certainly not fancy. typical 50's post war housing.... go back there today and its like a fucking ghetto. but it took 60 years to get that way.

I actually did a research project for an investment class on this. I originally used the working title "Ring of Shit Theory" because my hypothesis was that cities operating in a series of concentric rings that would form a bullseye (like the Target) logo where they would go through phases of urban renewal and the outer ring was always nice with rings of shit buffering the nice parts.

It typically applied to large, singl- municipality metropolitan areas though. Places that were formed from many smaller cities fucked it up because of different police/tax policy.