Each day I hear excuses from people for different things and then the ultimate pity party they are seeking comes out !. Why? I mean lets face it folks if you have an income, a place to live, and you can eat and get things done, why stop paying your rent? It’s a stupid option to take no matter what you do.
For instance I rent an apartment to a tenet in my basement. The man is supposed to pay 725.00 Dollars a month and 34.00 dollars a month for a DVR Cable Box and Internet use age on my router. He was given a parking place and asked not to open certain windows in the apartment due to them being damaged in minor ways. So instead of cooperating in everyway with me and making his life easier and mine too, he doesn’t listen when I talk to him or do what he is told. I mean how many times does a landlord have to tell you don’t open those windows, don’t park your car under pine trees in the winter that has branches that can fall off on it and destroy it?. These are not requests and harassing the tenant, they are made to save him trouble.
Instead I get him parking under said trees and tell him to move his car, he then tries to still open the windows I tell him not to and much more. He put himself thru the screen on the screen door three times, so I hired a man to rebuild it, and he still managed to put himself thru it two more times. He burns up the electric range in the apartment then tells us it was old, yet, it never had a problem in ten years with over people. What 54 year old man lets Q-tips go down a toilet? The lease said no pets, he brings home a dog and won’t remove it. Why push so bad and be stupid? At least 5 months in a row now, he has been late on his bills to us and when we ask why it is always a different excuse of one type or another. First it was, can I hold back 350.00 dollars from my rent to replace my laptop screen I broke in my truck? Nope. Then it was my car broke down and I need to have it fixed. Then it was my daughter was sick I had to pay her hospital bill, then back to the car I had to have it towed. Now this months excuse was, I didn’t get my lump sum Social Security Disability check so I can’t pay my rent. Too much for me for sure, considering you already get a VA check for disability on the first of each month, and all you needed was an extra 57.00 dollars to pay all of what you owed. Nope
In The end I got a letter from this tenant, he states he is having financial difficulties and can’t pay his rent and bills, begs us not to take back his cable box which is on my account and not to stop his internet use age also which he can’t pay for either. Plus no rent at all until he gets his check. Then he goes on to say because he had confrontations with me the landlord and shouting matches he can’t handle talking to me so he calls my wife and sends her text on her cell phone. Nope. Then goes on to say the confrontations with me , are going to cause him a nervous breakdown. Wrong answer!
This am, since his rent and grace period for paying it expires today, and I have his letter in hand, I cut off his use age and access to the internet thru my router. Next I shall call a police officer and have him confiscate and return my cable DVR Box to me with the remote and wiring to return to Comcast. From Comcast I will ride to the Marshall’s office and file a Notice to Quit on him legally and have him served to move by March 1st, 2011 or be evicted. I am not responsible for his mental condition, his physical conditions or his inability to pay his bills on time. He cried to me, telling me he is a disabled veteran and he hurts a lot, I looked back at him and told him I am too, and I don’t forget or not pay my bills!. So in the end before February 10, 2011 is over he will have been cut off from his cable box and internet which he says is his only entertainment, plus served a notice to quit possession by March 1st, 2011. I can’t call Comcast or my mortgage company and tell them I can’t pay my bills please don’t take my services away or evict me, he can’t do it with me either. Sorry
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