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Originally Posted by lewdog
And I am the opposite. We rent a house here in Phoenix and I take damn good care of it, spent $15 to stake a tree in the front yard that had blown over, used some stain remover to take out some carpet stains and made a few other small repairs throughout the house. Of course I know I am the complete opposite of most renters.
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I think people hear the horror stories of renters and assume that renters are da devil. In my opinion, the truth is that bad renters and bad landlords tend to go hand in hand, and good renters and good landlords tend to go hand in hand. If you're a good renter, you can generally (not always, but generally) sniff out and avoid a bad landlord. The same is true of landlords. I've had three renters in 16 years that I was glad to see leave, and only one that I had to kick out. (A second was getting close.) But none of those three caused any damage at all - one was smoking marijuana and got the boot, one was weird and having trouble paying her rent, and one was just weird. The weird one that was having trouble paying her rent would've never gotten in the door other than an administrative error, because I could see trouble there going in but couldn't stop it.