I rent a house out to a couple of european decent (polish).
I worked my absolute nuts off getting the house together. The previous owners lived with no central heating, an old copper boiler, everything was in a horrible state. I sunk about 30 grand into the place, everything is new, new carpet, walls, central heating, insulation everywhere. The masionnete gets me about £600 a month, the flat gets me about £400 (all one property). So peanuts really. First time I've been a landlord, and the first tenancy agreement is comming to the end, the tenants finding excuses not to pay already. They kicked up fuss about stupid things at the start, she (it's a couple) couldn't turn the oven on, so I had my mate have to go round and turn it on for her. There was the case of the ''sticky door'', the fire strip on the door prevented it from shutting smoothly enough for her, I'm not taking it out due to fire regs. He wanted to use the outside shed for storing his tools, not part of the tenancy agreement, I went down and cleared it out for him for no additional charge, took my all day, covered in filth.
Makes me feel like why do I bother at all. If this it's how it is, no appreciation of the work I put in for them, just picking over a few quid here and there, **** sake it's a brand spanking new masionnete for £600 a month. Don't think I'm cut out for this as I lose my rag too quickly. I feel like the only choice I have is to start treating them like dirt, because being nice gets me nowhere obviously.
I worked my absolute nuts off getting the house together. The previous owners lived with no central heating, an old copper boiler, everything was in a horrible state. I sunk about 30 grand into the place, everything is new, new carpet, walls, central heating, insulation everywhere. The masionnete gets me about £600 a month, the flat gets me about £400 (all one property). So peanuts really. First time I've been a landlord, and the first tenancy agreement is comming to the end, the tenants finding excuses not to pay already. They kicked up fuss about stupid things at the start, she (it's a couple) couldn't turn the oven on, so I had my mate have to go round and turn it on for her. There was the case of the ''sticky door'', the fire strip on the door prevented it from shutting smoothly enough for her, I'm not taking it out due to fire regs. He wanted to use the outside shed for storing his tools, not part of the tenancy agreement, I went down and cleared it out for him for no additional charge, took my all day, covered in filth.
Makes me feel like why do I bother at all. If this it's how it is, no appreciation of the work I put in for them, just picking over a few quid here and there, **** sake it's a brand spanking new masionnete for £600 a month. Don't think I'm cut out for this as I lose my rag too quickly. I feel like the only choice I have is to start treating them like dirt, because being nice gets me nowhere obviously.
