Showing your appreciation...

[Arthur Banks]

"Showing your appreciation encourages mediocre tenants to be better, and excellent tenants to keep it up."

Agree or Disagree?

[Victoria Winters]

Disagree. Showing appreciation is something a person is best served by doing as a matter of practice in their own life.  The act of showing appreciation neither encourages or discourages a person to change their behavior unless the person wants to change something they are doing on their own accord. 

Showing your appreciation helps to maintain a cordial relationship with your tenants.  As the property owner it is your responsibility to maintain your property and to respond to the situations that arise in the effort to maintain the property.  It is not your responsibility to encourage others in expectation that your encouragement will cause a change in their behavior.  The truth is, it is impossible to change another person.   

Thank you for posting the question.