Re: Florida A/C Repairs and Rent Refunds - Landlord Forum thread 335428

Re: Florida A/C Repairs and Rent Refunds by Sharon (Florida) on May 24, 2015 @22:19

How is the landlord a tight wad? He fixed the unit. You must be a renter. Only someone who doesn't own anything would say something so ignorant. People assume because you own something, that you must have money to throw around. Owning property doesn't mean you are rich and can afford to fix something as expensive as an A.C. unit. It means you have enough courage to take a risk and own a 2nd property, when things break it is stressful. And you might need a week or two to put the money together. Heck, I own three properties, and if my A.C. unit went out, I'd suffer for weeks trying to get the money together to fix it. If it were one of my rental units, I'd make sure they had it working sooner than if it were my own, but it would be a big hit. If you don't what your talking about, shut up. My advice, don't credit them, they sound like tight wads to me. Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll move and you can start over with tenants who are not pests.

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Re: Florida A/C Repairs and Rent Refunds by Anonymous on May 25, 2015 @08:43	[ Reply ]

First of all if I were a landlord I would make darn sure I had money enough to cover repairs of such kind before getting involved in this type of business. Secondly, yes there are tenants out there who abuse and destroy and should get the boot. Thirdly, there are landlords out there who continually ignore any type of request. Case in point, my daughter rents with 3 little children. She is a good tenant and can't afford to move. Her kitchen sink backs up and has to take the cap off a pipe outside her kitchen window to let it drain. It stinks like death and gathers flies outside her front door because that is where pipe and front window are. The landlord says no septic tank people will touch this job. Our question is why? She has now seen rats outside. Who helps the tenant? Also, if you can't be nice in your response then don't respond instead of telling someone to shut up. My mother taught me that wasn"t a nice thing to say.