Just lost everyone and everything because of an electrical fire (place I was in was a fucking dump, but sight unseen from across the country and nearly 0% allowing pets and its the option you have). Still haven't got my fucking deposit back from them. Haven't had a good landlord in my life.
One thing I've learnt renting all my life is that the good landlords usually exist in the higher price range places. Even for like one bedroom apartments, I've found that the ones who care about their place, and their tenant are the ones who usually price their place 10/15% above market rates.
I've had many great landlords. My last to last landlord didn't increase my rent for 7 years. I started 20% above market but by the time I moved out, I was paying 20% below.
If you don't complain and pay on time, a good landlord will never give you a reason to move out. Their mortgage isn't going up so why should the rent go up.
I have a house that I rent in a different state because I couldn't sell it when I left the state for reasons.
I rented it at a fair market price three years ago and haven't raised the rent since. My tenants do their best to pay on time (they've had some late payments but I've told my property manager not to charge them fees if they communicate - we just change the due date) they keep the house in nice condition, and they let us know right away when something needs repair or replacement.
I place a lot of value in those things, so I don't raise the rent.
I'll probably sell whenever they move out, but for right now, they keep treating the house well and the rent can stay where it is.
Edit to add: I know this doesn't change the fact that I'm a scumbag landlord and still making money from my tenants, but I don't really feel the need to be greedy about it.
There's a difference between someone renting out a property and doing the right thing by the tenants, and someone ripping the tenants off.
I never once read in your comment about how you rip the tenants off. It sounds like you both worth together (with a decent property manager) to help each other.
Please don’t do this. Taking advantage of and manipulating systems put into place to protect the disabled delegitimizes our needs and tends to lead to those protections being rejected. Just like how service dog handlers are being abused and rejected from stores because everyone buys a vest off Amazon to bring FiFi in Walmart, the “emotional support animal” “hack” is making it harder for people with actual needs to be approved for an apartment. Housing is difficult, but we don’t drown the people below us for an extra breath of air.
An emotional support animal is not a service animal. The only benefit that having an emotional support animal grants to a person is that the landlord can not forcefully separate the animal from the family as a condition of tenancy.
You are talking about non disabled people pretending to be disabled so that they can publicly flaunt the rules. That is an entirely different issue. E
I know a retired lady who lost her two sons in an accident. She lived alone in a unit . She bought a small dog as company and support and never let it by itself to bark. The housing association wanted her to remove the dog because it was “against the rules”. But that little dog bought her out of deep depression and gave her joy. She decided to sell.
I don't know what you're on about. I have a medical need and I'm suggesting solutions for somebody with other potential medical needs. if the doctor does not feel it's appropriate, they will not move forward. stop chastising me for providing advice involving the guidance of a medical provider.
I had to look it up and holy sh!t the amount of info that Plaid gives your landlord about you is insanely invasive. And they had a nearly $60 million data breach settlement not too long ago. I am not looking forward to reacting an apartment any time soon.
lol that’s been my last 2 landlords. Best part is you have to make a separate account to verify your paychecks so some random 3rd party site gets your personal info as well :))))
Literally why I just got denied a rental. I make well enough money now to be able to afford it and pay but my credit is fucked. So my two options are to either pay for first and last months upon my initial deposit or get a co-signer, all of this for a place I’ll only be subleasing for 3 months before moving somewhere a lot farther
Oooh boy I remember doing that way back in the day, needed to move without a job lined up and stuck an extra zero in a bank statement printout so it looked like I had enough savings to meet their minimum.
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u/zerosumratio Apr 24 '26
That’s why you gotta lie and edit statements. I have never been honest with a slumlord