Advice on college apartments?

younghoss
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:09:36 +0000

What a funny phrase: “I guess it’s because it’s a college town, these people are just out to get money from college kids.” Sounds more like defining a college, to me. Does this mean unlike landlords elsewhere that are just out to provide free housing? Or unlike doctors that just want to heal(but don’t want paid?), or architechts that just want to be creative(and don’t want paid?)
Capitalism isn’t a crime. It isn’t dirty. Cheating can be both.

My experience is that most people who complain about problems with LL or sec dep deductions either didn’t read or didn’t understand the contract. Hard to feel sorry for those, yet they can unfairly spread a bad rep for the LL.

There are more unscrupulous tenants than landlords, though both exist. Reputations can be deceiving(this and other great issues addressed in post 6). Past tenants have said I was an “unreasonable landlord” when the actual problem was that I expected rent in full on time. Yes, that actually happened in court. But a 3rd party that only heard their side, might have believed them.

So like anyone that enters a contract with anyone else, read the contract, understand it, if there’s something you want changed negotiate it. Then after all is done, honor it.
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