Landlord Resources
Oh the poor victimized tenant... That's all you find on an Internet search when you are looking for answers to protect yourself as a landlord. The landlord is universally villainized. Why the very name 'landlord' with its suffix 'lord' invokes a resistance to perceived power over the underprivileged. Well this is the 21st Century and the landlord has become the victim. Today's property owners are forced to allow tenant activity and possessions that can devastate the landlord's property, pay crippling fines and legal expenses, and lose practically everything when a clever opportunistic tenant plays the system.
Landlords have lost the right to commonsense practices and protections such as:
- deny tenant from having an obnoxious pet, even if it is a small horse, because the tenant can claim the animal is for emotional support
- prevent tenant from taking on additional roommates without compensation to the building owner
- non-return of tenant deposit when the tenant is behind on rent or has done damage that can't be specifically quantified within a narrow window of time
As a landlord, it is your property and you pay the taxes, yet you have very little to say about what happens on the land and building you are held responsible. As a modern landlord you find that your hands are tied when it comes to protecting your property and investment. You want to be good and fair to your responsible tenants, and also be able to hold the bad tenants accountable for their destruction.
Tenants are morally entitled to reasonable rights such as the right to privacy as well as allowed to live in a reasonably safe and well maintained environment. Laws designed to protect tenants are overreaching and vague, and in most cases cripple the landlord's most basic means of protecting the property and investment. The law goes too far. A fair balance needs to be restored, whereas the tenant has practical protections while the landlord has some degree of recovering costs when the tenant has violated the terms of the lease including damage to the property.
The reality is that the bad tenants are no longer held accountable. The good intentions of politicians and government has caused the rent to increase. Everyone pays for those bad tenants. Everyone's rent goes up each time a bad tenant is responsible for a great expense to the landlord. No one buys rental properties to lose money. What is truly not fair is that the good tenants end up paying more because of the bad tenants that the law does everything to protect. Welcome to modern day socialism in the United States.
TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR PROPERTY!
