Millenial Tenants?
For the landlords out there… Is it just me, or do the 20-something renters out there seem more indecisive and less courteous than renters in the past? I’ve been showing apartments in the past year to prospective tenants and I cannot remember so many no-shows for appointments, so many applicants who decide upon being notified…
For the landlords out there… Is it just me, or do the 20-something renters out there seem more indecisive and less courteous than renters in the past? I’ve been showing apartments in the past year to prospective tenants and I cannot remember so many no-shows for appointments, so many applicants who decide upon being notified that their application has been approved and then decide not to rent the place. Perhaps my memory is getting hazy?
I rented in my early 20’s a few years ago in the city and I’ve had pretty good relationships with my landlords vice versa. I think the only time I flaked out on a potential apartment was that I got a slightly better deal 2 blocks away without having to pay a broker fee. Plus the landlord seemed nicer.
As for your post…this is NY after all. Maybe kids these days are treating apartment hunting as if they were job hunting…competitive and all and looking for the best.
Butterfly – I had a few tenants with guarantors and had no problems. I would like to give young people who did not have a chance to build up a credit history with a good job to start off on the right footing. Additionaly, the young tenants add life to the neighborhood. I have made it as easy as I could (to within reason) to make it possible for young renters to move in. Another good point is that they usualy don’t stay for more then 2 years so you can raise the rent until eventually they all reach market rate.
I have been a landlord of a multi family and commercial space since 1993. In all those years I had one tenant who did not pay rent.
I do agree that young renters tend to be “more indecisive and less courteous”….so what?!
yea, the most annoying tenants are the young females. Some of them are whacky.
are you a landlord rob? have you lived with a midwesterner? i just don;t get where your ideas come from, besides the generic east/west coast elitist attitude that the rest of the country is a flyover zone full of backwards rednecks or something???
and I am not “one of them” i am just a person from the midwest who moved here many years ago and never left. am i automatically a terrible renter?
and i never said they won’t pay rent, i just said they will be the most annoying tenants you will ever have.
*rob*
aw, how cute… randi is one them!
*rob*
Do you have a “twang,” randolph?
“By daveinbedstuy on May 13, 2011 7:59 AM
I has become a culture based on texting and impersonal internet contact characterized by a loss of any sense of manners or civility. Trust me, most of them are worse in real life, 25 going on 14. You don’t want them as tenants.”
kind of an ironic thing to post on a blog…..but i agree with you.
“a good rule of thumb as a landlord is to never rent to midwesterners between the ages of 20 and 30.”
fuck you, i am from the midwest and rented in my 20s and 30s and NEVER missed a payment or anything. you can’t make these kind of statements. its just plain wrong!
lol no comment. are you serious asking this?
a good rule of thumb as a landlord is to never rent to midwesterners between the ages of 20 and 30. if more landlords stopped renting to them, this city would be MUCH MUCH better. stick with people from the east coast, california, and maaaaaaaaaybe the south tho i’d stay away from too…
the most problematic tenants are lady moonfaces between the ages of 21 and 34. but it sounds like you have more of a problem with people flaking out versus actual problematic tenants. maybe they just found something better? i cant imagine it being all that different now than how it was 10 20 or 30 years ago..
and landlords: LISTEN UP!!! PLEASE SAY NO TO GUARANTORS!!! THAT SH8t SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!