Friday, July 22, 2011

Landlords: a random vent

Tenants should be able to charge fees to landlords who don't do requested maintenance on time.   If a tenant is late on their rent they get a 50 to 75 fine.  Tenants can also be fined for being late on paying utilities, having a dead car, or not keeping the outside clean/maintained.  Yet if a landlord schedules an appointment to get something fixed in the rental and no one comes: they don't get fined. I think if it takes over a week to have the landlord call someone to fix something, (less if it's really important) they should take 50 to 75 dollars out of the rent.

2 comments:

  1. Yeah, but then the landlords will be losing money, and that is a no go. They know you need a place to leave and they are taking advantage of that fact

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  2. They be losing money, but landlords would make the money back, when they charge tenants late fees. Even if they didn't have the late fees, they could still afford it.

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