So the tenant in my rental was late on the rent, because she tells me that she is short of money this month. According to her social media page, she took her 2 daughters to Europe to see a pair of Taylor Swift concerts.
This is why I have no sympathy for tenants who are late because they are short on money. She bought six Taylor Swift tickets, 3 round trips of airfare, and hotels for a week in Europe, which probably cost in the neighborhood of $7500 or more, but expects me to feel sorry for her and not charge late fees because she doesn’t have enough money for rent.
I don’t care what she does with her money, but I do care that she didn’t pay her rent on time. That’s why I don’t buy people’s sob stories.
15 Comments
It's just Boris · September 8, 2024 at 10:23 pm
Well … You don’t care what *else* she does with her money. :-).
Priorities are a thing. Increasingly, though, lots of people seem to be ranking “wants” over “needs,” which works right up until it doesn’t. And yeah, social media … You’d think people who grew up with it, would understand its consequences a little better.
Miguel GFZ · September 9, 2024 at 2:27 am
$7,500? Probably close to $10K. It is summer in Europe and nothing is cheap when it comes to tourism.
Boneman · September 9, 2024 at 4:29 am
Really? REALLY????? SMH… Yeah… I would tell her if she’s looking for “sympathy”. It’s in the DICTIONARY… somewhere between Shit and Syphilis.
Craig · September 9, 2024 at 9:24 am
“…between shit and syphilis ” and somewhere after sodomy.
Stefan v. · September 9, 2024 at 4:48 am
Lucky for you an imported neurosurgeon and/or quantum physicist culturally enriched the TS concert in Vienna…..you have a good chance of getting your moulah.
nones · September 9, 2024 at 5:17 am
Probably about time to file for eviction. (Some) tenants suck…
Divemedic · September 9, 2024 at 9:30 am
That’s a lot of work and expense that I don’t need unless she totally misses paying.
Grumpy51 · September 9, 2024 at 5:48 am
Hope you have stiff/steep compounding fines……
How is FL state law in this scenario??
Divemedic · September 9, 2024 at 9:33 am
Once rent is 5 days late, I send a notice that you now owe a $100 late fee. The tenant has 7 days to pay the rent and the late fee. If they don’t do that, they are in default and will be evicted. They now owe me rent until I find another tenant, legal and collection expenses, as well as all late fees.
I don’t want to do that if I can help it, because it takes months to get them out, and in the meantime, the tenants will absolutely destroy your house on the way out. It isn’t hard for them to do $20,000 or more in damage, and good luck collecting your money.
The whiney “evil landlords charge so much money that it’s price gouging” don’t ever take that into account.
jimmyPx · September 9, 2024 at 9:59 am
ALOT of people instead of bills being paid FIRST are paid LAST after their “fun”.
They then expect someone else to pay their bills. You see this up North every damn winter because the state won’t allow the electric companies to cut deadbeats off in the Winter because they will freeze to death. Thus they don’t pay their electric bill ALL winter and in the spring they owe over $1000 and you hear sob story after sob story. I remember one article in the newspaper about 20 years ago and this woman was boohoo’ing yet had a giant screen tv, all of the disney dvds and had a coach purse YET couldn’t afford her electric bill ?
BS !!
My one daughter does this BS where she never has money for bills yet always has money for booze, pot, Starbucks and eating out. When the bills were all late, she’d try and call the “Bank of Dad” to pay. I quickly told her “adults pay their bills and the Bank of Dad is closed”. Somehow I was the bad guy and it was MY fault that her electricity got cut off.
That tenant I’m sure is pissed at YOU because you dare to require her to pay her rent that she is obligated to pay via a legally binding agreement that SHE SIGNED called a lease.
IcyReaper · September 9, 2024 at 10:50 am
And things like this is why I would never even consider renting out property’s. Not in the current FUSA.
J J · September 9, 2024 at 10:57 am
Another indicator of the collapse of Western Civ. Since the government started giving away taxpayer funded benefits for food, prescriptions, cell phones, etc there has been a shift away from being a responsible citizen to being a wants before needs people. People have these cults they worship like Taylor Swift, Disney, NFL, MLB, etc and they will put their desires to participate in the cults above their responsibilities to pay their taxes, bills and debts.
To me, its just disgusting that parents would fly their children across the ocean to see a performance by a marginally talented person who happens to have extremely good marketing, then shaft the regular working people they owe money to.
Plague Monk · September 9, 2024 at 1:18 pm
On one contract, I lived in an apartment owned by an absentee landlord. Per his written direction, I paid the rent with a money order that I mailed to the specified address. He told me orally that I could just send the MO by first class, but I ALWAYS did the registered mail, return receipt requested, etc.
One month, he claimed that I hadn’t paid him, and wanted me out so he could raise the rent. He took me to court, but the the judge laughed off his claim when I produced all the receipts, showing that I had mailed the MOs in plenty of time, and that he had signed off on each one.
The judge told him to pay for the time I had taken off for work, but I waived that, although I showed him and the judge my contract, with my astronomical DoD approved rate. No more problems…
I’ve been both a landlord and a tenant, mainly while on the road. These days, I could not imagine being a landlord.
Exile1981 · September 9, 2024 at 4:28 pm
I used to have a rental property, the hassle to get a tennent out was bot worth it. If they make any part of a payment the clock restarts according to AB laws. It sucks
Divemedic · September 9, 2024 at 7:42 pm
The good news here is that you don’t have to accept a partial payment.