What is it with Baltimore tenants?

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Just needed to get this off my chest.  Tenants these days don't want to pay for a darn thing.  They don't want to pay an application fee, they don't want to pay a deposit, they don't want to pay for utilities or anything.  They just want to move right in with no skin in the game, and then not even pay the rent.  This is what happens when there are more houses available for rent than tenants to fill them, and desperate landlords looking for anyone with a pulse to rent to.

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Ned Carey · Answer

@Phillip S. you probably screened 100 deals before you bought your rental. Tenants can be the same way. You have to screen a lot of them to get 1 good one.

Account Closed · Answer

Tell me about it.  Here are some of the cars to avoid:

- Anything that's a Buick

- Early model Ford Explorer or Expedition

- Early model Honda with a sticker of a little man pissing on something

- Anything with tented windows

- Mercury Sable

AND

- Many Vans with manual close side doors, if they can't afford the automatic doors BEWARE!!

Account Closed · Answer

Tell the tenant that you have a policy - and that they need to find another landlord - show them the door now and you won't have to evict later!

Mark Cruse · Answer

Some people cant afford to wait it out for the right tenant. You have to screen, screen, screen. I had more of that when I was forced to take whatever after a short time but I get the best I can at this point. Waiting for that works out in the long run.

Phillip S. · Answer

I suspect the tenant has gotten by with it in the past and there are other landlords in the area willing to do it just to get a paying tenant in there.

Ned Carey · Answer

@Phillip S. one of the best ways we find to screen is visit where they live now. How they keep their current home is how they will keep yours.

Max T. · Answer

Don't bring my car into this Jay. It is a crapshow and would make me look like a bad tenant. I have a 3 year old!

Jay Hinrichs · Answer

ya I get it my two daughters vans with their young ones  .. LOL.. I get it..  but if they have no kids  and the ashtray is spilling butts..

although my cars have not had ash trays for a long time now..

Phillip S. · Answer

How I wish that was the case - didn't do anywhere near enough due diligence on the property or the neighborhood.  Definitely won't make that mistake again.

What is it with Baltimore tenants?

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