We'll be moving soon.
dquarry
acreage and will be moving there soon, but also keeping our current
house and turning it into a rental - see:
http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-housing-house-rental-Rent-This-House-Near-Mill-Creek-Quiet-Bright-Spacious-W0QQAdIdZ168452995
Know anyone that want's to move to the Hazeldean area?
Jack Born
Kilroy
people with a good income need to rent?), you are going to HATE renting your
home. From the looks of the photos, you put a lot of time and money into
turning your home into a very comfortable living space. Stand back and watch
as people who don't give a rat's ass slowly destroy it. I've been there and
interviewed literally hundreds of applicants over a span of several years.
Every one of them was a perfect tenant who never smoked or partied...before
they moved in. Just when you think you have managed to pick the applicant(s)
that really stand out from the rest, it turns out that they are just better
liars. Also, watch out for the trick where they give their current home/cell
phone number as a reference. That trick seems to happen quite often.
"dquarry" <ja...@designquarry.com> wrote in message
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NoOne
are in, it's difficult and expensive to get them out. Be especially wary of
some welfare groups. A lot of these have really good, well thought out, fake
references set up. Especially ones that move from eviction to eviction to
eviction. They have one or two friends set up to give glowing references,
but it's all just a made up pack of lies that they've discussed and
pre-arranged. These phony references will often do this for dozens of their
friends.
The best technique I've found to screen renters is to deliver a rental
application directly to "their" current residence. Any qualms about
this....beware! A quick look at how they will treat your property is how
they treat their current residence. You also might get a chance to speak to
a REAL landlord or caretaker, but they often lie too, just to get rid of a
trouble renter. An hour of screening will save you hundreds of hours of
trouble and possibly hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Another welfare scam is evicted renters keeping an extra entrance key and an
extra mailbox key, and still collect welfare from your mailbox. This is
always a couple with a kid or two. Here's how it works. They get evicted and
using their fake references, they get into another place with a different
welfare office/location. "SHE tells welfare that HE skipped out with the
rent money, and the nasty old landlord kicked her and her kids out. "SHE"
gets a free damage deposit, 1st months rent, moving help, etc. They all move
into the new place. "HE" tells welfare that SHE took the rent money and went
out on a drinking binge or whatever, leaving HIM and the kids penniless in
the original residence. He goes down to the welfare office to pick up
another welfare check, because that nasty old landlord will evict HIM and
the kids if he's not paid right now. On welfare check day, he waits very
close to the old place, waiting for the mailman to deliver the checks. The
split second the mailman leaves, he uses his spare keys to enter and get
another full check. They usually get away with this for several months
(because of lack of sharing info between offices) then they tell welfare
that they've got back together, everyone's happy, and they've collected 6 or
7 extra welfare checks and usually get away with it. If they get caught,
they just tell the welfare office that you, the "landlord" was in on it for
a couple of hundred a month, or you, the nasty old landlord set it up by
blackmailing him in some way to do this. Remember, you evicted them, so they
have no love for YOU! Social Services can and usually will charge the
landlord in these scams, costing you a criminal record, or thousands of
dollars in legal fees, or both. This was played on me once. You can not
imagine the hassles!! I got out of holding rental properties right after
that. No one needs $hit like this. There are so many pitfalls awaiting for
newbie individual landlords that they have to watch out for, because they
can't do credit checks or criminal record checks on potential renters like
rental companies can.
Good luck. Maybe other Landlords can post some of the hassles bad renters
have given them! That'd be worth a seperate thread, in Edm.General,
of course.
"Kilroy" <Kil...@Idontthinkso.net> wrote in message
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Larry Mills
house to rent (way too nice and well kept). It should sell for a good price
in it's present condition (not so much after a years rental).
"Kilroy" <Kil...@Idontthinkso.net> wrote in message
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TMKF_Patryk
Warbuilder
outright fraud! And they had children? Seriously, people with
optional morals like that should have them taken away. I'm guessing
staying out of prison was a greater concern than calling Social
Services at the time, hey?
It seems that rental owners are held hostage by their clientbase no
matter how you go. Be too picky and the unit(s) sit unrented while
the mortgages need paying, but be too desparate and you're likely to
pay some of those gains cleaning up after the evictions and possible
"midnight moves". The demand is still high either way and the chance
to make money is there, but for private home owners it seems like its
much more of a long-term investment where the losses hit harder than
for those big rental holdings corporations.
Deliver an application to my residence? Not without due notice (24
hours) just like I'd expect from my own property manager. I actually
*live* in my unit, and if theres a chance I'd be denied a new place
because of a stack of dishes on the counter I'd like the time to clean
it up; tis what we all do when we're expecting relatives. My current
managers could care less how the place is used while I pay rent so
long as its not a health risk to anyone and its clean and damage free
when I'm ready to leave.
You talk about renter scams, why not include landlord scams? Like
leaving marks and things on walls from previous tenants so they can
charge the current tenants for damages when they eventually leave? Or
how about spending hours and hours to clean a place back to where it
was when moved into, including carpet cleaning, and still having them
take a day's cleaning labour from the deposit? Landlords tried to
pull both of these on a friend at work and only photo proof that the
damages weren't his got him off the first; they got him on the
second. Any way to scrape money off good tenants to minimize the
costs of cleaning up after the bad ones.
> > "dquarry" <j...@designquarry.com> wrote in message
> >news:23b94164-4b69-4272...@d5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
> >> Hello everyone, just a quick note to let you know that we bought an
> >> acreage and will be moving there soon, but also keeping our current
> >> house and turning it into a rental - see:
> >>http://edmonton.kijiji.ca/c-housing-house-rental-Rent-This-House-Near...
>
> >> Know anyone that want's to move to the Hazeldean area?
>
> >> Jack Born- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -
Warbuilder
A friend of mine back east used to be away constantly working on
projects wherever his company needed him. He rented because he just
couldn't be around enough to maintain a private property, but still
needed a warm and dry place for him and his things every once in a
while. Sometimes work would have him close enough to home that he'd
be around a lot more and the rent being far cheaper than hotel
living. As a senior welding inspector for major oil and gas projects
he could have otherwise taken a mortgage anytime he wanted.
For many who considered themselves working professionals its quiet the
opposite. They want to own and work locally, but do not have the
resources readily to hand needed for the bank to grant them the loan
amount to purchase the desired property.