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Booger says

B.A.C.A.H. says

Where I live in California many (most?) water heaters are in the garage.

Being in the Northeast, the concept of a water heater not in a basement is foreign to me.

Being in California the concept of a basement is foreign to me. =))

Hircus says

FJB says

Short term maui vacation rental: Someone bent one of my frying pans into the shape of a taco. They did a great job too! It was very symmetrical with no dents, paint chips etc.

Was it worn out? I'm thinking maybe they saw teflon chips, and decided to break it to force replacement for the sake of future users.

yeah im sure that was the reason because in your world, tenants are always worried about the future health and safety of the next tenant

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

those people are fucking sick in the head.

The wouldn't be homos if they weren't.

AmericanKulak says

Some 50 something fat Government Employee Black Woman stopped paying after first month, accused all her neighbors including my 70-sometihng mom and her 90-year old Cuban Great Grandmother neighbor - of making noise at 3AM when both are long since passed out. Oh, and the divorced single 50 something old Dentist who works on Travel Contract 3 weeks of every month and isn't even there. She also wanted them not to open the patio/balcony door at 10AM because she "Worked from home and was too loud". This building is Concrete and Steel, and 2 of the 3 apartments have laminated floors with soundproofing, the other has thick carpet.

Happened to me when I was living in a concrete appt building in a big city: one day a grumpy woman shows up at my dor claiming that she lives below me and can't sleep because my 50 lbs dog makes too much noise by running around all night. Weird thing is: the fucking cunt isn't even my downstairs neighbor - she fucking lived in the apartment located diagonally from mine, i.e. no shared floor/ceiling at all.

komputodo says

Hircus says

FJB says

Short term maui vacation rental: Someone bent one of my frying pans into the shape of a taco. They did a great job too! It was very symmetrical with no dents, paint chips etc.

Was it worn out? I'm thinking maybe they saw teflon chips, and decided to break it to force replacement for the sake of future users.

yeah im sure that was the reason because in your world, tenants are always worried about the future health and safety of the next tenant

I knew a girl who used to destroy her moms cookware when she visited because she would otherwise keep it too long past the point where they started flaking badly. I also heard her tell other people to watch out for flaking when we were a guest and they were cooking for us.

Some people care. I guess the possibility of that is just beyond you.

The one thing I know about health, is no one wants to hear my fucking advise,no matter how good it is. Maybe in the case of family you can argue for destroying pans, but where does it end? When you smash their radiation emitting smartphone? When you throw ALL their food in the garbage because it's full of pesticides and GMO's...

Amazing that people go through their entire lives this way, or until some PO'd victim does them in. Life is short, ugly, ethic-less and stupid with tongue lolling temporary gratifications as dangling carrot motivations.

My wife saw an ad in local paper from the 'slip and fall' sue lady in our development in Santa Cruz. In the day, she and her boyfriend traveled across country posing 'slip and fall' lawsuits against shopping malls. The courts must have lifted her ban, because she is advertising for somebody to 'help' her with tasks because she claims to be an invalid. We think she is just looking for somebody else to sue. Somebody will charge in to be a kind, helpful soul and will wind up in court on the business end of one of her extortion suits. She'll probably serve some daft LibbyFuck right. She has social services in her place all the time helping her, anyway, and likely also serving as her drug courier, so she is likely just searching for sources of money.

Yes, she tried suing our development for not having adequate handicapped access but lost. She also tried suing her proximate neighbors for cats wandering around, and had some shill lawyer attempt to declare her yard a 'bird sanctuary'.

NuttBoxer says

but where does it end

Wherever you want it to end? Just because you try to watch out for a someone else one time doesn't meant you suddenly need to adhere to some arbitrary pact of ideological and behavioral consistency.

It's ok to help a stranger and warn or save them from some random thing you perceive to be a hazard or pitfall. In fact it's not uncommon. It doesn't need to be over analyzed, nor does it obligate you to future actions.

Maybe neither of us would destroy frying pans in such a situation, but I do think most people have arbitrary "things" that they care about for whatever reason.

B.A.C.A.H. says

During college I had a gay roommate. I didn't realize he was gay till I'd lived there nearly a year.

Quoted for posterity.

Eric Holder says

Being in California the concept of a basement is foreign to me. =))

You are missing out! I am adding you story to my long list of reasons not to move to California.

zzyzzx says

During college I had a gay roommate. I didn't realize he was gay till I'd lived there nearly a year.

LOL! Nobody 'knew' in MSM that Michael Obama was a man until Joan River committed suicide over it.

zzyzzx says

Eric Holder says

Being in California the concept of a basement is foreign to me. =))

You are missing out! I am adding you story to my long list of reasons not to move to California.

Au contrare, my friend: not having a basement gives me opportunity to point out to my kids, that livinig in my basement as adults IS NOT A FUCKING OPTION for them. :)

It's kind of hard to live in the concrete slab of Mom's crap shack. Of course, a crawl space will do in a pinch, as long as the raccoons don't mind.

Booger says

BayArea says

I rented to a gay couple once

Boy did they make a lot of nit-picky calls on things.

Also, at lease renewal time they would always remind me of how much rent they paid in the year and used that as reason why each year they should get something like new appliances or carpet.

Fuck you

I would have guessed that gays would make good tenants because they didn't have kids wrecking the place.

They were clean, no complaints there.

But boy were they entitled. Listen tenant, I’m not going to replace a perfectly good working washer because you think that you are entitled to a new green water conserving washing machine. That got old.

BayArea says

new green water conserving washing machine. That got old.

Get them a washboard, a tub, and a bar of lye soap, LOL!

Sounds like the classic case of buying without vetting the purchase. Happened to my friend also on one of his first rental property purchases. If you're buying rental property, make sure to vet the existing tenants.

NuttBoxer says

Sounds like the classic case of buying without vetting the purchase. Happened to my friend also on one of his first rental property purchases. If you're buying rental property, make sure to vet the existing tenants.

Buy commercial, preferably cash. NNN lease. No emotion and no responsibility in comparison to residential. I'd never do residential rentals again unless it was the deal of a lifetime. People running a business have drive to not fail. Residential tenants know they can fuck you over and it not be a big deal for them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/1016v2g/dog_peeing_from_upstairs_condo_balcony_toronto/

Dog Peeing from Upstairs Condo Balcony

https://www.reddit.com/r/realestateinvesting/comments/1232kwv/my_battle_with_squatters/

My Battle with Squatters

https://www.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1f77egg/im_a_failed_real_estate_investor_heres_what_i/

I'm a failed Real Estate Investor.

zzyzzx says

https://www.reddit.com/r/realestateinvesting/comments/1232kwv/my_battle_with_squatters/

My Battle with Squatters

For a Democrat state, even Colorado has anti-squatter laws like Florida.

I think Florida recently copied Colorado's law and they threw the book at a recent squatter from New York who thought he could game the system in Bay County, Florida.

I suspect now some criminals coming down from the north realize Florida just passed an anti squatter law: https://sa14.fl.gov/2024/07/26/squatter-sentenced-to-40-years-in-prison/

I think the reason being is all the rich white Democrats who own vacation homes in Aspen, Vail, etc.

Also there are a lot of AirBnB homes in Colorado (just like there are in Florida with the beach condos, etc); so they need these anti squatter laws to protect the vacation home rental industry.

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zzyzzx says

I'm a failed Real Estate Investor.

all about research and due diligence

i agree as far as the other post about checking existing leases and who the tenants are as well as verifying the financial docs that the seller provides

hire a good building inspector to check from foundation to the top of the roof including condition of utilities like water and sewer lines, storm water issues now and potentially in the future, etc

as well as what is next to the real property such as undeveloped land that could end up being developed and reduce your property value or make it hard for customers to reach the tenant stores on your property

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