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.
The woman is an artist- artists are strongly affected by color. It has nothing to do with who picked the color. I hate peach. I wouldn’t care if my best friend picked it or my hated 4th grade teacher, I would still detest it.
“Any normal landlord would of referred to the “ex” like “his girl friend”.
Who cares if they broke up or not? Is that piece of information really important here, or in court or even this damn BLOG?” You are joking, right? How the hell do you know how a “normal landlord” would have said this. are you the word usage police? FYI, typing “ex” is faster than typing “former girl-friend” every time – it’s SHORTHAND. She was giving information about the tenant and the paint situation and who was responsible for what part of the problem.
“Anyway, you wouldn’t find me personally painting any tenant’s bedroom, while the tenant lived there – especially when the crappy paint job was in the kitchen, and the “hideous deep colors” painted by the “Ex” were in the living room,”
Why aren’t you reading Flora’s posts? the tenant wanted to paint his bedroom and asked her to help. She’s an artist- she paints. She’s his landlord. Hello?? And now she was trying to salvage the situation so she wouldn’t have to go through the time, aggravation and expense of evicting him- if she could. The man is abusive, threatening and nasty. He rents in her house, where she also lives. You bet it’s intense- it would be for anyone so again, what is the problem with you?
I was thinking Ricki Lake…
This is a mission for Curtis Sliwa!
It isn’t in the gutter, as you call it, where I wouldn’t put sex anyway. Sex does not equal gutter – sex is just sex.
But it is the weird emotional relationship they have, which is evident in her posts, as someone else noted, that suggests some, well, weird emotionally intense relationship. It could be any number of sorts of relationships. But when she says, “there’s a lot more to this than I previously posted, it’s looooooong” and “The issues are far too complicated to explain,” well, that usually suggests one likely emotionally complicated scenario – granted, there could be others – but she’s not saying.
Anyway, you wouldn’t find me personally painting any tenant’s bedroom, while the tenant lived there – especially when the crappy paint job was in the kitchen, and the “hideous deep colors” painted by the “Ex” were in the living room, I’d already told him he could paint, but then he bought paint, but didn’t paint. You gotta admit, it is strange, strange for a landlord/tenant relationship.
Now she says she wants him to go, but can’t quite tell him to, even though she’s legally entitled to give him 30 days notice.
I don’t understand why asking if she had an affair with the tenant makes me a sexist. Yes I’m a dude and I’m not accusing her I just asked a question.
She did write “former girl friend” then writes again (notice the caps)….
“He also didn’t like the color the EX painted and commented that the work was poorly done (it was). I painted his bedroom myself.”
She mentions it 3 times, and critize the ex’s effort with “poorly done” and “hideous colors”.
Any normal landlord would of referred to the “ex” like “his girl friend”.
Who cares if they broke up or not? Is that piece of information really important here, or in court or even this damn BLOG?
Let Flora answer honestly.
this-
“No, it’s just that my mind isn’t in the gutter like yours is.”
Was in response to this genius-
“Hardly. You just aren’t attuned to the language women use and it how to read between the lines.”
No, it’s just that my mind isn’t in the gutter like yours is.
“Sexist, no, and I ain’t a dude. It’s all potentially there in what she wrote.”
And that’s the whole point- You said “potentially.” Not really. Not actually. Potentially as in maybe as in I am assuming that the scenario in my head is the real one.
9:13’s right. Nothing flora says indicates anything about sleeping with the tenant and everything you’ve quoted, you then extrapolated into a scenario you’ve written, not the OP. Reading between the lines is fine when you know someone, but you don’t in this case- you’ve invented Flora the landlady from hell from what you think she is “potentially” saying. Maybe you’re not as attuned to the language of women as you boast.
Hardly. You just aren’t attuned to the language women use and it how to read between the lines.