When I married my wife and she moved in we tried renting out her house with a property management company. She got one tenant and had that tenant for over 2 years with no complaints and we never raised the rent, just enough to cover taxes going up too.

But when we wanted to move to a larger house we gave her an 8 month notice we couldn't renew since the market is so bad and we needed to sell. And my wife wasn't profiting at all, she was still in the red from the repairs and setting up the house to rent out. We offered her like $10k off the price.

Anyway long story short, the tenant gave us hell for those 8 months, and when she moved out we found she never complained about anything because she ignored all the problems which made things worse and the house needed thousands of more dollars to prepare and sell.

She'll never try being a landlord again, she hated it and the tenant shit talked her "landlord" on Facebook all the time like she was some evil monster.

I don't know how anyone else does the landlord thing, this must be all the ones run by evil corporations.

This was a house my wife bought for like $150-180k originally.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have managed a building with 8 units before. Never again.

I once had a lady's ceiling collapse. I then come to learn she's been putting a bucket out to catch water for months, never told anyone about it. What should have been a quick 15 minute fix ended up being a total nightmare.

Had one dude who was a heroin addict. Kept flushing needles. The plumbing had to be taken apart multiple times to get his needles out.

Had a lady who kept adopting cats, wouldn't get them fixed. She would then let them out into the hall to spray the walls with what was basically straight ammonia, except grosser.

I could go on all day, trash fires, fucking litter, a phycological inability to break down cardboard. I think my blood pressure just spiked writing this.

You couldn't pay me to be a landlord. People are awful.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

If it's any consolation, I'm in an 8-unit owner-occupied condo rn and my kitchen ceiling collapsed last week because the HOA refused to fix a roof leak for almost two years. So now what should have been a couple hundred dollar roof patch is thousands of dollars coming out of my HOA payments.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bullshit you just didn't do any maintenance

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

people will ignore problems if they think someone else will deal with them

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah we know you did

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