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A great story with great pictures. Interestingly, the tenant agreement from the 1950's required the original three tenants to both pay rent and help tidy up the
by HillaryBriss 8y ago
A great story with great pictures. Interestingly, the tenant agreement from the 1950's required the original three tenants to both pay rent and help tidy up the building.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoThis isn’t that uncommon. If I trust a tenant, I’ll give them a break on the rent if they act as a “property manager lite” for my larger (5+ units) properties. The cost savings is always worth catching a problem early compared to the rent you discount.
- londons_explore 8y agoSomeone who'll act like an agent and give tours of neighbouring flats is worth a lot. They'll pick people they want to be their neighbours, and is a far more effective way of not renting to drug addicts and gangs than any background check.
- hprotagonist 8y agoi wound up living rent-free for a year or so in the mother in law apartment of an old multi-family home this way once. The new owner wasn’t going to move in until spring, and it was a cold very snowy winter. Turns out, preventing ice dam damage in a lath and plaster house by keeping the roofs clean makes your landlord like you a lot. As in, we exchange christmas cards now.
- lostlogin 8y agoI was paid to have a role like that. It was great while it lasted but wore thin after a year of dealing with reoccurring problems that seemed so obviously idiotic. Pushing the automatic carpark gate open with the car because it wasn’t fast enough: a couple of times a month. Putting clothes hangers up through sprinkler heads and setting off the sprinkler: quarterly. Meth addicts smashing up washing machines: monthly. Crazy people with crazy demands detailed in multipage letter: weekly.