The Battle Between Tenants And Landlords
Posted on February 1, 2010
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There’s a silent war going on in America. In fact, it’s going on everywhere in the Western world. This war isn’t fought with guns or ammo, but court battles, arguments and both sides simply trying to annoy each other. It’s the battle that’s on between property owners and tenants. If you’re a property owner in Telluride, for instance, you might have contacted your telluride real estate on many occasions to complain over tenants you’re not satisfied with, who aren’t paying rent on time and who are breaking the contents of your property. If you’re a tenant in these telluride properties, however, you could be complaining about the intrusive nature of the owner’s visits, their difficult attitude towards the way you live in your own home, and their constant maneuvering to get out of giving the bond back. These battles go on every day in each country that has landlords and tenants, and it doesn’t look like it will end soon.
If you’re a tenant in this situation, it’s a fact that you’re in a difficult arena. Landlords can and do cheat the system in order to make things more difficult for you. Trying to get you to pay more money, or maybe kick you out if they think they can have someone else to pay more, these are common occurrences in the world of property investment. What you have to do is remember your rights. Landlords will happily walk over tenants they think will allow it, and if you don’t show that you’re aware of your rights as a tenant, they’ll see you as ripe for exploitation. Find out the laws in your state on the tenant and landowner relationship, and find out exactly what limits you are and are not able to cross.
For example, don’t allow them to simply drop in whenever they want to. This is a violation of your rights, and you are able to shut the door on landlords and not let them in. Even if your house is clean, it’s still not a great idea to let them come in, because now they’ll feel it’s their right to come into what is essentially your home unannounced. It’s an offense against your personal space.
Landlords, if your renters are damaging your property, paying rent late or in some way behaving in a negative way, it’s important that you stick to the legal options you have available. Testing these laws, for example by giving threatening phone calls to the tenants who are damaging your property, can be utilized against you at a later time. Think properly about what you can do to get the tenants to leave or treat the place well.
We don’t often think that land owning is quite an unnatural idea. For whatever reason, humans have made up that through the giving of green pieces of paper, we can decide that an area of land is now a part of a single person. Maybe it’s worth taking a step back to look at the wierdness of the whole situation before stressing too much about whether your tenant or landlord is giving you trouble.
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