Meeting The Landlord

Welshwoofs

SUGARSPICE wrote: »

Welshwoofs

If you dont like the question dont join in!

Thank you for your polite and considered advice

franklee

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Landlords are human beings, with the full gamut of personalities that one would expect from people in any walk of life....therefore asking what one's experience of 'meeting a landlord' was is a bit pointless to me. It's like asking 'what was your experience of meeting the mechanic who did your MOT' or 'what was your experience of meeting the woman at the library who stamped out your copy of a Douglas Coupland novel'

Welshwoofs wrote: »

I didn't say there's no benefit in meeting your LL, my point was that there's no benefit in knowing what somebody else's LL is like when trying to ascertain what one's own LL may be like. Every LL is an individual, as varied in personality/culture/morals/tastes etc etc as every tenant, therefore knowing that Person's A LL was a total knob and Person B's LL is chatty and pops round with homemade jam doesn't help when you're Person C with a totally different LL from A and B.

Yet the OP didn't give that as the reason for the thread. There was no reason given. I assumed we were just chatting and comparing notes like say owner occupier movers often do here and yet their buyers and vendors are all individuals too, I don't see anyone saying anything like the above or it's pointless to them.

Anyway I've found the thread an interesting read.

Welshwoofs

franklee wrote: »

Yet the OP didn't give that as the reason for the thread. There was no reason given. I assumed we were just chatting and comparing notes like say owner occupier movers often do here and yet their buyers and vendors are all individuals too, I don't see anyone saying anything like the above or it's pointless to them.

Anyway I've found the thread an interesting read.

I take your point franklee.

My comments were really to play devil's advocate. Most of the postings on this board relating to LLs highlight bad examples and sometimes I do wonder what impression posters, about to rent for the first time, get about the average LL. Hence my comments that they're all different.

I guess I could foresee the thread becoming one of those 'compare how bad your LL is' type things

For what it's worth - in 20 years of renting (average 1 to 2 years in a property) I've only ever met the LL three times. Those three were perfectly nice.

Angelhales2601

It did make an interesting read for me this topic as I am moving next week to a property with a sole landlord, at the moment I rent from a company who have been fantastic and have had few dealings with. However I suspect this is going to be a different case with next place as its a single person landlord. I can see what Welshwoofs is saying but as much as we can all compare landlords every single one is different. Some good some bad some indifferent.