being a LL is not hard work at all.. bashing tenants is shamefull since its tenants you need to pay for your homes

as for homes on craigslist i seen plenty from this site since you all post that card for pre-screening stuff. what a joke... if you are all such great LL why post problems on this site. you are such a pro you dont need advice. do it yourself since its your hard work.. LOL

Good luck with the next PITA you get

Because tenants with the attitude that the LL can take care of tenants damage, garbage and filth. Tenants who trash property then move on to the next unsuspecting LL. Courts that protect the lazy deadbeats & not the HARDWORKING LL's, that's why!

Our business is Hard Work, foreign concept to some tenants. Hard physically some of the time but Hard mentally all of the time.

We do depend on the tenants, that is what our business is based on. But what you seem to forget is tenants get something in return for the rent they pay. A roof over their heads.

LL's are not stealing their money. Tenants come to a LL, look at the property agree to certain terms (the lease or rental contract) then more often then not they want to alter the agreement (pay late, pay in bits & pieces, extra animals, damage etc.) or flat our disregard the agreement all together.

I always find it interesting when tenants post here. They never seem to get the answers they want to hear. And almost always go away mad. This is a business for us not a charity service. We don't owe the tenants anything more then what the leases or rental agreements they sign have stated. And as far as respect goes. You get what you give. When tenants show me and my property respect they get respect but when they don't then they are added to the pile of deadbeats that are out there.

So I'm not suggesting you go away mad but you might consider just going away!

You don't even own a home, much less what you think you could own here or anywhere.

Great Landlords have problems because of losers causing them. You really have no clue, do you?

You have a problem with differentiating between paying rent for a home to live in with no responsibility for the upkeep and maintanance, and "making your landlords mortgage payment". While the mortgage gets paid, we still pay taxes and insurance and maintanance. Who pays the mortgage, taxes and insurance for every month the house sits vacant? Not you!! There is about a 10-20% vacancy factor that along with new carpet, paint and every other thing that has to be constantly replaced because of excessive tenant abuse. Your rent doesn't even cover the mortgage payment.

I have had just about every kind of PITA tenant that ever exists, so I am well preparred to deal with them swiftly. You are mad, because more landlords are getting wise to things and not easily manipulated anymore and this site has a great deal to do with that. Otherwise you wouldn't be lurking around here wondering what we talk about and, again, just like a tenant trying to cause problems.