Seems to be that I'm helping a particular mate at the moment with jobs on his house which he rents, and the tenants finally have decided they are moving. The trouble is he hates paying trades and thinks he can do the work himself, so he drags me down there and we do a poor job, which would be even worse had I not been there to help.
It's got to the point now where I'm not tolerating him very well, because he never wants to plan or cares about the finish. He has no standards and he expects everyone else to be the same way. As a result he attracts the sort of people that don't look after the place (messy tenants), and I say to him how do you expect the tenant to care if they think you don't. They bring stuff and leave it in the garden, yet he's got piles high of his junk there as well lol. He doesn't want to spend money on anything. Everything is old and tattered. Horrible looking kitchen, bathroom, etc. Place is basically falling apart and needs about 20k spent on it, and he's trying to wing it by doing odds and sods to keep the tenant sweet. He basically doesn't care, just purely in it for the money.
When things go wrong he blames the tenant, or the agent (which he gets quotes for work through but never uses), or the timeframe, or lack of money (yet he's jet-setting about all the time). He will come up with stories and excuses as to why it's someone elses fault. I think he's just hopeless really and not cut out for property development or being a landlord.
Where do you stand with mates like this? Do you distance yourself or try and help where you can and watch the train wreck? Is it worth trying to change someone who doesn't want to change?
It's got to the point now where I'm not tolerating him very well, because he never wants to plan or cares about the finish. He has no standards and he expects everyone else to be the same way. As a result he attracts the sort of people that don't look after the place (messy tenants), and I say to him how do you expect the tenant to care if they think you don't. They bring stuff and leave it in the garden, yet he's got piles high of his junk there as well lol. He doesn't want to spend money on anything. Everything is old and tattered. Horrible looking kitchen, bathroom, etc. Place is basically falling apart and needs about 20k spent on it, and he's trying to wing it by doing odds and sods to keep the tenant sweet. He basically doesn't care, just purely in it for the money.
When things go wrong he blames the tenant, or the agent (which he gets quotes for work through but never uses), or the timeframe, or lack of money (yet he's jet-setting about all the time). He will come up with stories and excuses as to why it's someone elses fault. I think he's just hopeless really and not cut out for property development or being a landlord.
Where do you stand with mates like this? Do you distance yourself or try and help where you can and watch the train wreck? Is it worth trying to change someone who doesn't want to change?
