How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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It's nice to know that there are some good landlordsbut even 'breaking even' means that you've essentially got a house paying it's own mortgage , not exactly something to complain about!
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greedyostrich Cheese is evil! Cheddar is VOODOO!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 12:01,
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It can be a good deal, but...Tenants can cost you a LOT if you get a bad one. A few years back we had a tenant who broke and filthified a bunch of brand new appliances (including the stove), then said that it was like that when he moved in (BRAND... NEW...). He then took my family to court over it and won, though my dad was able to get a restraining order against him because he had been making harassing phone calls.
A criminal background check revealed that he had done the same thing a few years prior.
Whichever side you're on, it's just a matter of finding people who aren't assholes out to screw you.
(Oh, and: we don't have a mortgage. I know, Americans without a mortgage. Freaky. Anyways, we wouldn't be able to afford to pay property taxes if we didn't rent out the unit, so when we have to spend the rent on fixing tenant damages, we aren't too pleased.)
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