tenant problem
I own a 3 family which I also live in. One of my tenants decided that he wanted to paint his apartment and bought paint last winter. He later asked me to help him paint and I painted his bedroom. Now he has decided that I must paint his entire aprtment and has become hostile…
I own a 3 family which I also live in. One of my tenants decided that he wanted to paint his apartment and bought paint last winter. He later asked me to help him paint and I painted his bedroom.
Now he has decided that I must paint his entire aprtment and has become hostile and aggressive, ,barraging me with nasty emails and phone calls. I have told him that I will paint his apartment, on my own schedule, and have not made any promises. Today he paid his rent, a week late, and deducted 220.00 for the paint he bought. He provided me with a credit card receipt from a paint store, with the total of his purchase, but not an itemized receipt. Is it legal for him to do this? I want to return his rent check and tell him I will reimburse him for the paint,separately from his rent when he gives me an itemized receipt and that he cannot deduct anything from his rent. Is it okay for me to do that? In 12 years, I have never had a tenant like this and am not sure how to handle the situation.
Wow, I am shocked by some of the people who post comments on this site. The situation went from a simple landlord/tenant dispute to a torrid sexual affair!
Flora, I’m impressed that you took the time to answer each weirdo individually. Good luck with your situation. I think you are doing the right thing by raising his rent so he leaves.
Which tree did you shake to get this peach?
Which tree did you shake to get this peach?
“Today I went to the P.O to send a 30 day notice by certified mail and tenant was at the clerks window ranting about renting a P.O. box because his landlady reads his mail.”
Jeez Flora… Get him out ASAP. He’s sounding more and more like a nutjob in the making.
Nitpick? HA!! Stop sniffing paint lady. You’ve lost it.
guest at July 9, 2008 6:06 PM: You just love to nitpick, don’t you? You must be really fun to live with. Yes, I have a lawyer who was referred by a friend, but I’m open to other recommendations. Do you hire the first person you talk to?
guest at July 9, 2008 6:30 PM
“craziness of the unprofessional, cheapass, lazy, non-law-abiding landlords who don’t get that being a landlord is a business”
Oh yes, and I’ll bet you’re a delight as a tenant too.You have no idea what you’re talking about, you don’t know me, you don’t know my building.
Another example of why it is best, when possible, to not live as a tenant in an owner occupied (or absentee owner)brownstone. While I like the charm of the buildings, as I get older I have less and less patience for the craziness of the unprofessional, cheapass, lazy, non-law-abiding landlords who don’t get that being a landlord is a business, and that the relationship is governed by contract (the lease) and the law.
I’m glad to be past that, and, I hope, never again….
“Is the problem here that you can’t read?”
Oh now your being petty, like it really matters if I wrote apartment instead of bedroom.
I need to learn to read?
Did you already forget that you told us:
“I do have a good lawyer, don’t feel that it’s quite come to that point yet, but if the tenant doesn’t calm down and pay his rent, I’ll let the lawyer handle it.”
Hello that “point” is here Right now. Stop playing victim on Brownstoner and handle your business.
If this posts is real, That dude will be there for free until November.
guest at July 9, 2008 3:13 PM: It is insulting, even if I was single, no one had any reason to think I was involved with the tenant. Except maybe a person who has a low opinion of women in general.
“If you would of originally wrote my boyfriend and I repainted the apt.”
Is the problem here that you can’t read? We didn’t repaint the apartment, we repainted his bedroom and we have both worked as housepainters so I do not know what you’re ranting about judges throwing gavels.
Current tenant and his ex were both on the lease, my mentioning her does not have any of the hidden meanings your vivid imagination is conjuring up, I do take typing shortcuts & yer jst actng lk a jrk.
guest at July 9, 2008 3:38 PM: Agreed, with or without a medical condition I wouldn’t put up with anyone who acted this way. I have already sent him a notice that his rent is going up August 1st, he refused the certified letter. Today I went to the P.O to send a 30 day notice by certified mail and tenant was at the clerks window ranting about renting a P.O. box because his landlady reads his mail. I think he’s bipolar or something, but I don’t care, I just want him out. Anyone recommend a good L/T attorney?