Tenants or landlord question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im glad she's not my tenant! I cannot even imagine our tenants saying this to us. We actually had our fridge go down in our rental. It was down for 3 days because they had to order a part. The tenant knew that I acted quickly to get it repaired, and that we had not control over what happened to our appliances or how long it took to get a part.

Tell her to read her lease. If she is educated enough to read......

She's highly educated. We're in the same field. At least she was smart enough to rent, rather than buying a place at the top of the market and then meeting her husband, having kids within two years. I hate being a landlord!

(Oh, and she read the lease with a fine tooth comb. The signing took almost two hours. She wanted to add such lovely stuff as extra rent deductions if repairs weren't /completed/ within 48 hours. We settled on a promise in good faith to initiate all repairs within 24 hours of being notified, and the ability to deduct from rent any expenses incurred because of the condo not being habitable if that wasn't done. There was tons of stuff like that.)

you should have not leased to a person like that

[Anonymous]

I wouldnt have leased to her for sure, What a PIA she must be. Im all for being aware of what is in your lease but a person like that is at a whole other level.

[Anonymous]

This is 8:47 again. I disagree with the pps who said you should not have rented to someone like this. We have a tenant like this too. We recently inspected the place because we were hoping to sell and our realtor was really impressed at how well she's kept our place up and how little we're going to have to do to get ready for the market as a result. I mean, she kept going on and on about how lucky with are, even as the renter complained to us about the aluminum windows during the inspection. If your ultimate goal is to sell, I'd much rather have this tenant than the tenants who trashed the place and cost us $5k in repairs when they left.

OTOH - the fact that she doesn't always pay rent on time is a red flag for me. I hope you nail her for late fees, OP. If she wants $$ from you for this (e.g., spoiled food) then you should definitely respond in kind when the rent is late.

[Anonymous]

If the fridge broke the night before, then I can see how she might have lost some freezer items. I rent and the fridge went out TWICE -- the first repair turned out not to fix the problem -- and we lost a bunch of food. In our case the level of coldness diminished slowly, and that's not the kind of thing you immediately notice. (The second time the fridge broke it just crapped out more quickly instead of limping along, so we noticed it more quickly.). The first time we lost a TON of organic meat we had just bought at the farmers' market, and in total we lost hundreds of dollars worth of food. I felt that the landlords had some responsibility, since we relied on them to provide working appliances, but in the end although we mentioned that we lost a lot of food, we didn't say anything to them about getting compensated.

Question: would the landlord's home insurance cover the costs?

[Anonymous]

Our tenants NEVER pay rent on time. Check arrives between the 5th and 10th of the month and we have never charged them a late fee. OTOH - they have been in the home for 3 yrs, going on their 4th. They take great care of the house, and would never ask us to pay for spoiled food. I guess its a trade off. Rent on the 1st and a major PIA? or late payer who is a few days late.

Anyhow OP - I think your tenant is being highly unreasonable..good tenant or not. Keep in mind, you are setting a precedent (sp?) with her. If yo pay for her spoiled food, that means she will come to you for every item going forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the fridge broke the night before, then I can see how she might have lost some freezer items. I rent and the fridge went out TWICE -- the first repair turned out not to fix the problem -- and we lost a bunch of food. In our case the level of coldness diminished slowly, and that's not the kind of thing you immediately notice. (The second time the fridge broke it just crapped out more quickly instead of limping along, so we noticed it more quickly.). The first time we lost a TON of organic meat we had just bought at the farmers' market, and in total we lost hundreds of dollars worth of food. I felt that the landlords had some responsibility, since we relied on them to provide working appliances, but in the end although we mentioned that we lost a lot of food, we didn't say anything to them about getting compensated.

Question: would the landlord's home insurance cover the costs?

buying expensive organic meat is YOUR problem not your landlord's problem. seriously??? how entitled you sound....