Another last minute cancellation/sob story

[Gailete]

As a side note

I googled this guy on facebook and he appears to be a rocker living near the beach in SC. Does a lot of gigs and a lot of partying and fishing, judging from the photos. If he's living below poverty, it's by choice.

His girlfriend is a Stress Relief Facilitator & EFT Practitioner, as well as the owner/hostess of a Karaoke Bar and photo booth.

But they deserve a refund.

Our society just gets more and more self-centered, selfish, and only carrying about themselves. I blame it on those Kids softball/basball games where they don't keep score, and declare everyone a winner and they all get a trophy. Like the kids are dumb, they know perfectly well that the other team won. But more and more as these kids grow up under the influences of stupid rules like that, the more we will see these sorts of things happening.

When we had to re-rent out rental unit in July, our old tenant moved a lady and her three kids in. We were taking down her info around the 20th when we found out, and at that point with ten days to go before the next rent was due, she had not a penny towards the rent and oh yeah 'I'm not sure of the status of my DUI'. My friends who handles rentals in Iowa did a criminal search for her and found that it was her thrid DUI which is when our state throws the book at them. So somehow facing a jail term and no money she wanted to rent a place from us. Not a Section 8 property by any means. I'm surprised we even got her out of there so we could actually rent it! I bet by August she would have had to move out into different accomodations, A-pod at our local jail, or certainly wouldn't have any rent money to give us and we would have gotten the excuses and at the end for some reason it comes down to the landlord/us. We had one couple that was on vacation and didn't bother sending in the rent on time, and she was so upset that we expected it, she came to our house and started screaming at me, blaming us for the whole thing. I had to go and lay down until my blood pressure went back down.

I think many renter see landlords as being wealthy/rich/well-to do, etc. just because we can 'afford' to have a property to rent out. So of course we can handle not having the rent paid or thinking they should get a refund for any excuse. On line buys many times are the same way.

[Nutria]

EFT Practitioner

Electronic Funds Transfer Practitioner?

[TexasHusker]

Electronic Funds Transfer Practitioner?

That's it!

[ronb]

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[ronb]

Texas needs to start a renter blacklist.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

Texas for all these bad there are tons of good renters right? Majority. It's just likely you see the worse people = those with money who are bad with it and claim poverty due to bad (really bad) choices.

[TexasHusker]

Texas for all these bad there are tons of good renters right? Majority. It's just likely you see the worse people = those with money who are bad with it and claim poverty due to bad (really bad) choices.

Well, our cabin business does I would guess $1 million a year in rents, and we have about 1 of these crop up every 45 days.

So yes, in the scheme of things, it is a very small fraction.

[disneysteve]

1. You are below poverty but you rented a luxury vacation home for evacuation.

I still can't comprehend this. If I was evacuating, I'd book a HOTEL, not a rental property. I'd need an open-ended reservation. I wouldn't know if we'd be gone for 3 days or 3 weeks. A home would be a hell of a lot nicer for sure, but in those circumstances, I'd want flexibility to check out as soon as we could or stay as long as we needed.

[TexasHusker]

I still can't comprehend this. If I was evacuating, I'd book a HOTEL, not a rental property. I'd need an open-ended reservation. I wouldn't know if we'd be gone for 3 days or 3 weeks. A home would be a hell of a lot nicer for sure, but in those circumstances, I'd want flexibility to check out as soon as we could or stay as long as we needed.

Yes, find a Courtyard Marriott 100 miles away, enjoy your fully cooked breakfast and afternoon cocktails, and go back home when you are ready.

[disneysteve]

Yes, find a Courtyard Marriott 100 miles away, enjoy your fully cooked breakfast and afternoon cocktails, and go back home when you are ready.

Nah. Courtyard doesn't include breakfast. Residence Inn for sure. Then we'd also have a small kitchen so we could cook our own meals too.

[Nutria]

I still can't comprehend this. If I was evacuating, I'd book a HOTEL, not a rental property. I'd need an open-ended reservation. I wouldn't know if we'd be gone for 3 days or 3 weeks. A home would be a hell of a lot nicer for sure, but in those circumstances, I'd want flexibility to check out as soon as we could or stay as long as we needed.

I'm sure they tried.

[TexasHusker]

I'm sure they tried.

Yeah their very last resort was a mountain top vacation home 500 miles away.

[Nutria]

Yeah their very last resort was a mountain top vacation home 500 miles away.

During Katrina, that's exactly what people did: started looking nearby and then called further and further out as they kept getting told "no room at the inn".

[disneysteve]

During Katrina, that's exactly what people did: started looking nearby and then called further and further out as they kept getting told "no room at the inn".

Sure. That definitely happens. One of my friends who lives in Viera, FL evacuated. The nearest place she found that would take her and her pet was in Richmond, VA. That's about 750 miles away. So that's the hotel that she stayed at for 5 days until she could return home yesterday.