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The basic Chinese Landlord principle is this: The best tenant is one who sends a check every month and never calls. That's a pretty good principle. But speakin
by hugh3 15y ago
The basic Chinese Landlord principle is this:
The best tenant is one who sends a check every month and never calls.
That's a pretty good principle. But speaking as a non-Chinese landlord, I doubt you'll find a landlord of any ethnicity who disagrees with this principle. I'm all for catchy names, but this is really the Landlord Principle.
- simonsarris 15y agoSpeaking as a landlord's son (who has had to clean places post-move-out) and live-in landlord, "the best tenant" as described leaves for some really weird edge cases...
- felipe 15y agoIronically, his experience would be totally different in China itself, where the tenant regulations are non-existent in practice. I had to deal with a number of landlords in two different cities, and I have to say that his principle ("[...] that people will pay a premium for convenience and stability.") is absolutely not true in China. Landlords will go to great lengths to extract the maximum amount of profit to whoever they can get as renters. It doesn't really matter if the renter is good or bad, because the whole country is going through such a huge transformation that nothing is stable right now. Renters move in and out, new rules are changed or created very often, etc... You can be the best renter (and I think I'm a pretty good renter) and the landlords still are going to try to extract something from you. And I cannot really blame them -- They are businesspeople, and their apartments are investments in a highly volatile environment. And I don't think it's even a cultural thing... Of course culture always play a role, but I think the issue is simply how the market is right now (i. e.: regulations, competition, instability).
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