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.
Flora,
Your tenant is an asshole. Do you really need to deal with this crap given your medical condition? Get your lawyer to inform this f*cktard that the rent is going up 500 bucks a month as of 8/1 and that he can either pay or get out. If you have to, evict him. Just get this idiot out of your house asap.
agreed 12:52. But I’ll play along.
The weird and insulting accusations are a figment of your imagination. Not one person insulted you here. A simple question was asked and you answered. Don’t jump on the “sexist” bandwagon.
If you would of originally wrote my boyfriend and I repainted the apt.. no one would of asked if you had an affair with the tenant. Blame yourself for the confusion because you did in fact mention this guy’s “EX” 3 times for reasons still unknown to me. And at the end they were both on the lease and you used the same “typing fast” excuse that Bx conjured up.
Whatever.
Do you think if your boyfriend did a lousy paint job and this crazy tenant was standing in front of a judge he would say “her boyfriend painted the apt”?? Hell no.
He would say the landlord painted it with a straight face!
The judge would ask you to confirm ,and you would say” my boyfriend painted it” he would probably throw the gavel at you. and tenate would take his sweet time to leave without giving you a dime.
I didn’t mean to offend any women on this thread I have little girl myself. I would probably lose it if a tenant yelled at her. I might just grab the guy by the neck a force fed him paint soup.
“Again I think mentioning “girlfriend” or “ex” several times is good reason to ask if there was an intimate relationship.”
No, it isn’t. Making weird and insulting accusations that have no basis in reality like the one above is just plain trollish. And sexist, regardless of your gender.
“The fact is the bad paint job happened under his tenancy. It doesn’t really matter who painted. The lease holder is responsible.”
True.
I dunno. Flora sounds an awful lot like Biff to me. Just sayin.
ok thanks for your answer. Im 10:22 aswell and I take it back. good luck
Bx, the more you rant the more I think you are Flora? I never said you mentioned lease or defended the tenant. I do have several buildings packed with happy tenants so dont talk out of your ass.
Again I think mentioning “girlfriend” or “ex” several times is good reason to ask if there was an intimate relationship.
The fact is the bad paint job happened under his tenancy. It doesnt really matter who painted. The lease holder is responsible.
Thought I’d check back and see how if anything interesting and useful came up and I see that did not happen.
bxgrl at July 9, 2008 8:24 AM: Thank you for standing up for me, but don’t waste your energy on these trolls. People (using the term loosely) who post this kind of nastiness anonymously on the internet are losers who have no power in real life so they get their yayas out getting all aggro on the net.
guest at July 8, 2008 5:57 PM: An affair with my tenant? Sleeping with a tenant? EW! Sleeping with a guy half my age? Double EW! Sleeping with this very unattractive jerk? Beyond Ew-y!!!
Perhaps you yourself sleep around with tenants, but I am not that kind of person. And yes, it is sexist to assume that a woman’s problems with another person are based in some kind of girly romantic mess. This is a business relationship that went bad, read a newspaper, it happens all the time.
guest at July 8, 2008 6:33 PM: You just are way off the mark, surmising. conjecturing, and wrong.
guest at July 8, 2008 11:42 PM: More really bad amateur psychoanalysis, do keep your day job. My boyfriend and I painted his bedroom because that is the room he wanted painted. And I’ve told him 3 times now I want him to move out. Yesterday I wrote up the 30 day notice and am going to the P.O. to send it by certified mail today.
guest at July 8, 2008 11:40 PM: I’m not totally sure what you’re ranting about. I typed ex because it’s quicker than “former girlfriend” and capping both was just a typo. I actually like his ex, just not her taste in paint colors or her painting skills. Mentioning her is completely relevant because she was the co-tenant on the original lease.
guest at July 9, 2008 1:13 AM: Are you really a landlord? God I hope not because you are insane! I’m not “hiding in my home from this man” and I’m not afraid of him, I just have come to dislike him intensely and avoid talking to him because he’s a raging a-hole. The only reason I wrote to this forum is because didn’t know whether or not it was legal for a tenant to deduct a purchase from his lease. Instead of an answer, I get all this loony conjecturing from trolls, sheesh.
Repeat, he doesn’t scare me, it’s just that I really really don’t like him and will not put up with anyone yelling at me, ever. Yeah, I have a heart condition, he knows about it, so what? He doesn’t give a crap and although I’d rather avoid the stress of an eviction, I’m ready to do it and called an L/T attorney this morning. Oh, and I didn’t need to “dig up his lease”, I do this thing called keeping organized files. So stop with all this conjecturing, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
1:13- you’re a normal landlord? Like hell- I have said nothing about the lease or anything else defending the tenant and if you weren’t so stupid- too stupid to be a landlord obviously- you wouldn’t be fighting with me on stuff I didn’t say. I’ve been defending the landlord from the jerks who have tilted over into psychoanalyzing her and her imagined relationship with the tenant.
Bx did you make this whole thing up? If not back off!
What is it with you? Remember you don’t speak landlord so quit jumping up and down and shut your trap!
I’m a normal landlord and like many of us the lease is what matters not an “ex” girlfriend. That’s bottom line.
Why is she hiding in her home from this man? Does he not know she has a heart condition? And he still yells at her and scares her to the point of writing to us for advice.
Dig up the old lease and read it. It’s still in force as long as he still lives there. If not do what you have to do if you value your health because dude is there RIGHT NOW.
Call the police.