Tenant Problems

Thursday, January 7, 2010

It has been almost two years already when we bought the two-door apartment from my mom’s friend. This is the first time that we ever manage an apartment and ever since, our tenants have been a real problem.

They always pay late or sometimes they miss a month’s rent and it will take months before they can fully pay. This is no problem if we just put the money in savings account but we use the money that we get from our apartment to pay for our car loan. Now I am thinking if I should be stricter with my tenants because we have always been lenient with their payment deadlines. If only I have learned that those companies offering pre-employment screening can also do background checks for potential tenant, then I would have hired them to perform tenant screening before I accepted my tenants.

I don’t want to be heartless and asked my tenants to leave also because I know life is really hard and I should at least be a little considerate. Oh well, maybe if my tenants decide to leave, I will definitely have a tenant screening first before getting new occupants for our apartment.

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