Why i HATE renters, another rant!

csgohan4

Durban wrote: »

Definitely this.

I am also a landlord and all my tenants go through vetting.
All the tenants have been absolutely brilliant and stayed years, except for one.

He made his neighbours life hell with his anti social behaviour , fighting and drug taking although the rent was paid on time , without fail every month , by his father.

When we got to hear about it , he got a warning first. It didn't make any difference and there was an elderly lady who lived next door to him.

He was evicted. The void period and the hassle of having to get in a new tenant was worth far more to us than the money that was coming in every month.

I also rented when I was younger and I had 3 small children. Although they were noisy , as most small children are , they were polite and well brought up and certainly not swearing at 4 years old.

OP , are you in a position to possibly rent out your home and rent somewhere else yourself for a while? Maybe you could do this for a year or two and conditions may then improve , or might then be easier to sell as market conditions may have well improved by then?

It is unfair that you are being driven out of your home by the selfishness of your neighbours , and the don't care attitude of the agent and the " I'm alright Jack " landlord.

Sadly not all LL will be as sensible as you, some are commercial LL and don't care as the Rent is paid.

pickledonionspaceraider

Your neighbour doesn't owe you a thing OP, why on earth would you be expecting her to help you out?!

It is not her fault you are old and want chores doing - the same it is not your fault that she is a single parent with five very difficult children by the sounds of it

The people saying throw her out on the street - what a dumb move. That will solve nothing other than to move her on to somewhere else.

The people saying this, clearly have no idea what it is like for her trying to raise five kids, alone.

Other than slamming doors, it really doesn't sound as if she as horrendous as you make out

lincroft1710

Voyager2002 wrote: »

Surely you know that the word is TENANT! There is no such word as "renter".

Renter - tenant who pays rent

(Source - Chambers English Dictionary)

Cakeguts

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

Your neighbour doesn't owe you a thing OP, why on earth would you be expecting her to help you out?!

It is not her fault you are old and want chores doing - the same it is not your fault that she is a single parent with five very difficult children by the sounds of it

The people saying throw her out on the street - what a dumb move. That will solve nothing other than to move her on to somewhere else.

The people saying this, clearly have no idea what it is like for her trying to raise five kids, alone.

Other than slamming doors, it really doesn't sound as if she as horrendous as you make out

Did you read the post about the neighbour being fined for not sending her two youngest children to a special school 2 days a week? Also the bit about leaving her children with her parents and spending all night out? This is a really nasty person who doesn't care about anyone. She doesn't care about her children at all.



You have to feel sorry for the children because their mother doesn't care about them. Because she doesn't care about them she is not teaching them life skills and stopping their anti social behaviour. A badly behaved 4 year old is not nearly so much of a problem as a badly behaved 15 year old.



I can never understand why people like her who don't like children and find them a nuisance have so many. She would have realised after the first child that she didn't like children or want to spend anytime with them but then she had 4 more.

Davesnave

knightstyle wrote: »

This house we cannot sell for the price paid in 2006 no we did not over pay.
So started looking at renting in another town but will have to top up as house next door, same as ours, is £650 a month, spacious 4 bed town house with great views and detached garage.

This is the sort of thing suggested by my earlier post; take a decision that gives you back some control of the situation.
It might mean a financial hit, but feeling trapped and boiling over with rage soon saps energy and impacts other areas of life.

Crumble2018

Cakeguts wrote: »

I can never understand why people like her who don't like children and find them a nuisance have so many. She would have realised after the first child that she didn't like children or want to spend anytime with them but then she had 4 more.

It happens all too often. I'm not terribly keen on children. Thankfully I had the intelligence to realise this and got myself sterilised!

ruperts

Cakeguts wrote: »

You obviously have never had contact with a family who don't care about their children and who don't care about anyone else either. We had let a house some time ago where the next door neighbour had been rehoused by the council because a house that they lived in had flooded several times. It was at the top of a hill. That family lit a bonfire in their backgarden and put a mattress on it. The flames were higher than the house and neighbours had to call the fire brigade to put it out because of the danger of it setting fire to the next door house. The houses were semis. They connected the washing machine into the surface water drain and polluted the surface water drainage because they couldn't be bothered to connect into the correct drain. There were 3 generations in the same house. 4 adults and a primary school child whose mother was one of the adults and who was a prostitute. A 3 bed house. The only reason why they were not more trouble in the neighbourhood was because they were frightened of our tenant's partner.



What you really need with a tenant like the OPs is to know someone who is perceived as a thug (they could be the nicest person on earth) who will frighten the neighbour. Hopefully they will then either do something about their behaviour or move.



This is not a vulnerable family. The school will have worked with them to prevent the children from being excluded. This is a parent who doesn't care about anyone but themselves and who only takes from society.


The landlord needs to start vetting people better to weed out these tenants from hell.

You've made an awful lot of assumptions in this post. From where have you got the impression that the mother doesn't care about her children? Sounds to me like she's having a difficult time with it, which is perfectly understandable. But not caring? There's no evidence for that and I think it's unlikely.

We don't know why the kids were expelled, could be any number of issues possibly or possibly not related to their mother's difficulties.

I just find it quite ironic really that the OP sees fit to complain that their neighbours aren't doing their gardening for them for free, but doesn't seem to recognise that as neighbours there may be plenty they can do to help a family that is clearly struggling. Getting all angry, insulting them and treating them like they are a different species is not exactly what I'd describe as being a good neighbour.

RelievedSheff

pickledonionspaceraider wrote: »

Your neighbour doesn't owe you a thing OP, why on earth would you be expecting her to help you out?!

It is not her fault you are old and want chores doing - the same it is not your fault that she is a single parent with five very difficult children by the sounds of it

The people saying throw her out on the street - what a dumb move. That will solve nothing other than to move her on to somewhere else.

The people saying this, clearly have no idea what it is like for her trying to raise five kids, alone.

Other than slamming doors, it really doesn't sound as if she as horrendous as you make out

She should have perhaps thought about what it would be like bringing up five children alone before having them!

The lifestyle choices of one person should not have an adverse effect on those living around them.

Crumble2018

ruperts wrote: »

I just find it quite ironic really that the OP sees fit to complain that their neighbours aren't doing their gardening for them for free, but doesn't seem to recognise that as neighbours there may be plenty they can do to help a family that is clearly struggling.

The OP didn't actually say he wanted them to help with his gardening - he was using it as example of how things were different in previous generations.

knightstyle

Well actually we do not have a garden! just a terrace overlooking the river! So I never said I wanted her to do my gardening!!!!!
All I said was that I, when younger would do our elderly neighbours grass as he was no longer strong enough to do it. I never expected anything in return but his wife made lovely cakes!