Tenants not sticking to the rules

moromir

Turnbull2000 wrote: »

How would you like it if I came to your home and made demands on what you can and cannot do? Do you see yourself as somehow superior to your tenant?

Dramaqueen much? :eek: get a grip and stop putting words in the OP's mouth.

milliebear00001

I can see wy you wouldn't want a tenant to smoke - it does get into everything (I can tell if my tenant neightbours next door are in their garden having a fag if my windows are open, and we are detatched!)

However...I do think it's slightly unreasonable to expect to control your tenants' lives, and to some extent this is one of the hazards of renting out a property. People smoke. You can't stop them. Tenants do all sorts of stuff you would rather they didn't or that you wouldn't, but at the end of the day, there's little you can do except evict and risk a void if it's immensely important to you. Or simply redecorate throughout, as cheaply as poss when they leave.

blackshirtuk

Salz wrote: »

The only time I haven't had a full deposit returned was the first house I rented when I left home - that was a house share with a friend, and the letting aqent took money off for damage to my friends bedroom.
I have respect for the houses I live in, I just wish the landlords/ letting agents would respect me and treat me as an adult and an equal to someone who has bought a house. I am not a second class citizen even though that is how I am made to feel as a renter

Salz,
you have become the victim of "horror story tenants". who have given all tenants a bit of a stigma.

Pennylane

I know the deposit is law and you are making a fuss about nothing because I have already said he has details of it.

Maybe the second sentence confused you, perhaps I should have then said "I am keeping 100% to the terms of our agreement, but I don't think he is." Meaning ... I agreed to provide him with a property to rent and supplied everything he asked for. He agreed to all the conditions and accepted that it was a No Smoking property.

You are also making stuff up to suit yourself. I have not been near his property since he moved in (which I have also made very clear but you are choosing to ignore). He asked me to sign and return a form and I did that and stayed outside and the smell of smoke was obvious.That was the only occasion and at his request.

Oldernotwiser

Pennylane wrote: »

You are also making stuff up to suit yourself. I have not been near his property since he moved in (which I have also made very clear but you are choosing to ignore). He asked me to sign and return a form and I did that and stayed outside and the smell of smoke was obvious.That was the only occasion and at his request.

Perhaps they stand outside the property to smoke and that was why you could smell it?

Does he pay the rent promptly? If so he's a pretty good tenant in my book - would you rather have no smoke and no rent?

Salz

blackshirtuk wrote: »

Salz,
you have become the victim of "horror story tenants". who have given all tenants a bit of a stigma.

Maybe you are right - it doesn't help that I am currently renting on a 5 year oldish housing estate (still building - it's very large) which is rapidly turning into one of the most undesirable areas in the city. I actually feel sorry for the owner occupiers as they are surrounded by more and more social housing, and then there are people like us - the private tenants.

The easy way to tell the difference is owner occupiers make their front gardens look nice, and private tenants make sure the lawn is cut, but will not go to the expense of planting anything extra

At night before I go to bed I always look out of the bedroom window, and check on all the smokers having their last cigarette before bed - I can count 5 out the 10 houses I can see, and they are all renters

clutton_2

""I can count 5 out the 10 houses I can see, and they are all renters ""

thats why they can't afford to become home-owners....

delain

clutton wrote: »

""I can count 5 out the 10 houses I can see, and they are all renters ""

thats why they can't afford to become home-owners....

I don't wish to be a homeowner, a view that may well raise eyebrows on here as being a homeowner is almost seen as the holy grail of everything

I've been very very lucky with my landlord, I've had the odd text asking if I could please cut the grass as he passed the house yesterday and noticed it was a bit long it's a bit long and that's it :cool:

And repairs get done quickly.

I do think people over-react now, to everything, and I find it annoying that I look on Rightmove or wherever and a house that would be ideal for us says 'no children or pets' :wall:

I don't have a massive noisy messy dog, but all pets are just as bad apparently!

RE: Smoking - everywhere I've rented everyone has been made to smoke outside because I can't stand the smell and I don't want the kids exposed to it. OH has now given up altogether

tbs624

clutton wrote: »

""I can count 5 out the 10 houses I can see, and they are all renters ""

thats why they can't afford to become home-owners....

That looks like a huge assumption there Clutton - that all T's are renting simply because they can't afford to buy a property? I think you know that's not the case.:)

clutton_2

:cool:my tongue was firmly in my cheek there young tbs - just forgot to put a smiley in !

when i smoked - one of the many attempts i made to stop involved calculating how much i had spent since starting smoking in my teens.... suffice it to say a house could have been paid for with the money burnt in fags........

maybe thats why i finally ended up in property - dreams of mis-spent yuff