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• February 1, 2006 / 0 Comments

  Bad-Tenant Speak

  We have double-speak, politician-speak, and lawyer-speak. Bad tenants have been left out, until now. Below are definitions of common words and phrases as used by bad tenants. They mean something entirely different to most other tenants and to landlords. I have listed them so you will not be tempted to fall into the “bad-tenant speak” […]

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• January 1, 2006 / 0 Comments

  Enough Is Enough

  Here’s a New Years Resolution you may not have thought about. Create Rental Policies and Standards for existing tenants, based on the property and the type of tenants it usually attracts. Then you’ll know for sure when it’s time to keep one or give one the boot. How do you know when it’s time to […]

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• February 1, 2004 / 0 Comments

  The Blemish of Bad Tenants

  Bad tenants are thieves. They steal from landlords, their neighborhood and good tenants. They steal our money, because they don’t pay the rent. They steal our investment because they are bad neighbors and bring down property values in the neighborhood where they hold out, driving out our good tenants. They steal our property, because they […]

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• June 1, 2002 / 0 Comments

  The Bad One That Got Away

  There go two more prospective tenants out the door. No way you’re going to rent to them, but was it ever tempting. They seemed like such nice people–nice car, good looking. But when you handed them a copy of your rental policies and procedures, along with the rental application, they read them, said “we’ll take […]

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• April 1, 2002 / 0 Comments

  Just Where Do They Live?

  Where do criminals live? Not the Enron-type criminals, but the ordinary, run-of-the-mill robbers and stealers, the drug dealers, the burglars. I will go way out on a limb and venture to guess that better than 99 percent of them don’t own their own homes. That means that they live in rental housing. How do they […]

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• June 1, 2001 / 0 Comments

  The Two Times a Landlord Gets Into Trouble

  Somewhere, right now, as you read this, a landlord is getting into trouble. He or she has a tenant who won’t pay the rent, is violating the terms of the lease, is trashing the apartment or even whom he or she is physically afraid of. Daily I get emails from landlords asking how they can […]

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• February 1, 2001 / 0 Comments

  The Price of a Bad Tenant

  Go ahead, keep that bad tenant. You know, the one who pays the rent when he feels like it, the one who has the wild parties where the police come, the one who punches holes in walls and only takes the garbage out when the mood strikes him – about once a month. Go ahead […]

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• February 1, 1999 / 0 Comments

  When Is It Time to Get Rid of a Tenant?

  Sometimes the answer is easy. They haven’t paid the rent and have no intention of paying it. You evict them. They are trashing the property. You evict them. They are selling drugs out of the unit. You evict them. Other times the answer is not so easy. They are late with the rent often, but […]

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