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Ultimating_is_fun t1_jedjau2 wrote

Reply to comment by kilometr in Landlord-tenant officer shoots woman in head during eviction, police say by phillycheeez

>I remember one time it involved my mom getting hit in the back with a pan and the tenant arrested.

Why do people suck? Like, I get that life situations can be a disaster. But if you don't pay rent and the evictions process unfolds over the course of months, why would anybody blame the landlord?

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hairlikemerida t1_jeehdh9 wrote

As a landlord, everyone loves to hate us. I mean, I understand why. Easy target, economy sucks, and most landlords are the worst (we try really hard not to be). It's just frustrating that everything eventually boils down to people saying "Landlords are scum" to everything we do.

One of my tenants hasn't paid rent in months. We took a chance on renting to them as they were a young couple very close to expecting their first child. They didn't have much, no family to rely on. As a small family business landlord, we like trying to help people and we are able to do so every once in a while, so we approved them and their rent is well below market rate and we don't do increases. As their one year lease was nearing the end, I didn't want to renew (as they had consistently been late and owed back rent), but my parents did because they really wanted to help them. So we waived all of their late fees and let them use their last month's rent to catch up to be in compliance so the lease could renew.

Now they're four months behind with seven months left on their lease. We're in the middle of the Eviction Diversion Program right now. If the tenant owes less than $3,000.00, the City will pay their back rent, as well as an additional month of rent so the tenant has breathing room, which is very nice of the City, but we've been in this for almost two months and still haven't gotten anything.

Went to the building recently to perform the annual fire alarm test and I see a GoPuff order sitting outside with their name on it with a brand new $60 Bluetooth speaker in the bag, as well as other items. I brought the bag in so it wouldn't get stolen and I'd certainly never say something to them about it, but it really hurt to see that. I try and tell myself that they could've had a gift card or something, but they probably didn't.

I doubt that they'll start paying after we get done with the EDP. And we can't evict until three months after the EDP closing date.

ETA: Out of the $1,400 they've accrued in late fees, I've waived closed to $1,200 of them. I've stopped waiving them.

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EmmaSchiller t1_jefxpis wrote

"It's just frustrating that everything eventually boils down to people saying "Landlords are scum" to everything we do."

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But if you think you're one of the good one landlords, then this statement doesn't apply to you, so why do you get upset by it?

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Is it because you know that making money off of a necessity is scum behaviour and that landlords ARE scum?

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Ultimating_is_fun t1_jefpwve wrote

>It's just frustrating that everything eventually boils down to people saying "Landlords are scum" to everything we do.

If I were a landlord I'd try to discriminate based on how much reddit/Twitter the tenant uses. The echo chambers really affect people IRL

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kilometr t1_jeel7ky wrote

I think so people just expect to be able to live somewhere for free. The women was agitated cause she came home to her stuff in bags outside on the curb. She wasn’t home during the eviction.

She eventually did come back later to apologize to my mom. But I feel that was to help avoid heavy charges.

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