I agree with you on this one. All the talk of befriend and getting back at him only lower yourselves to his level.

Thank you. Exactly.

If you own a renter you should look after it. After all it's your property.

I look at it as public enforcement of the law.

Reread my initial post and you'll see that (depending on exactly what it is) it may violate not just the rental contract, but city code or state law.


and BTW I've been a tenant many times and a landlord many times - it is just an intrinsically difficult relationship

I have found this to not be true.

Pretty simple- the Landlord has obligations, and the Tenant has obligations.
I always keep my obligations.
If the tenant keeps their obligations, everybody gets along just fine.
If the tenant does not keep their obligations, they get an eviction notice.

I screen the snot out of applicants before I give them keys to my building.
Evictions have been extremely rare.

most of my experiences were before you could easily screen people like you can these days

also, I used to tell my really good tenants that they were throwing away money on rent & should buy a place - at least 2 of the best did that

My favorite way to loose a good resident is when they buy a home.
I always congratulate them for leaving.

What do you (or we)care if he violated rental contract or city code?

Randy, I agree with you about the code and the rental contract. We still don't know what the heck actually happened at his house. it could have been a sticking screen on a window or a binding door. They still work and serve its purpose? so the owner choose not to fix it, so what. What is it that bother us so freaking much? This is about what comes out of the guy's mouth about poor people, not about his property. If it doesn't concern any of us, why do we get bend out of shape over it. I could care less what he does or what he says.

That was how I handled things. When my best tenant moved out (moved in with boyfriend), one of her best friends moved in. Another great tenant.