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Landlord's Learning Center- Firm But Fair- A Practical Guide to Tenant/Landlord Relations
We signed up a new client this weekend, a very nice woman with a problem tenant in her unit. When I asked her to describe the situation, I was not very surprised, having heard the story a hundred times before over the past 16 years as a Sacramento property manager.
The tenant said they'd pay last week, but they did not. The story keeps changing, and now they were 1.5 months behind on the rent. This was the reason she was signing up for property management. She was hoping that we could get her tenant back on track. I hated to be the bearer of bad news, but I believe in being perfectly honest.
We cannot make bad tenants into good tenants, I explained. The best we can do is to remove them from your property as soon as possible. However, if there was a chance that the tenant might pay the past due rent, it was because the Landlord had finally resorted to hiring a professional property manager.
You see, once a Landlord has established a precedent of being flexible, or "soft" on the tenant, it can be very difficult to adjust that tenant's behavior. The Landlord loses some control, ... more

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