well done with my post hehe.
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you have to get the money up front, AW. Nobody is going to send you that money if they change their mind about the apt.
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but do these guys realize i can screw with them and their credit history if i had the heart.
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just get it upfront and save yourself the headache. it will also be an indication of how serious a person is about the apartment if they will pay the credit check fee.
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Flexichick wrote: just get it upfront and save yourself the headache. it will also be an indication of how serious a person is about the apartment if they will pay the credit check fee.
very true, lesson learned. this haven't ever happen to me before this month blah. some how i got a session of assholes parade, and all male too. majority of my tenants in the past has been female. -
Subject: Re: should i get my $40 of flesh from these dead beats?
Mr Warrior,
If you have a camera, can you go get it and take a picture of your self when reality sets in after reading the following quote from your message. Bear in mind, The internet is not anonymous.armchair_warrior wrote:
i got their ss and bdays. i could screw them royally by posting their stuff on some hacker sites lol.
If the epiphany does not occur, never mind.
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Not to get all new age on your ass but it is NOT worth the bad karma. What bad vibes you put out, you get back threefold. Chalk it up to experience and consider the cost a cheap price to pay (imagine if you had actually rented to them?) for avoiding a bad situation and a lesson in dealing with the masses.
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Poor Landlords. The real victims. I smell inherited wealth.
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modsquad wrote: Poor Landlords. The real victims. I smell inherited wealth.
modsquad i make less than people that rents from me, its my whole family's and extended families pooled money. I have never ever screwed over any tenant, i go above and beyond for them.
hehe, snicker snicker. wink wink.
I remember your other post and your inherit dislike for landlords. please curb your bias at the post. -
Go Armchair. I had one tenant for eleven years - never raised the rent once - even though there were times I barely made ends meet. Tenant was so great - moved out of state - still keep in touch.
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yeah
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it just modsquad said stuff about me in other post about how i was being cheap and etc.. typical landlord hate stuff he writes. without even knowing me. even though i stated the case of what happen with this one tenant.
fyi my inherit wealth LOL. i bet you never gone hungry via none dieting means. I come from a third world country. I have been hungry before. I wore the same clothes in school when i was in elementry for a long time. kids in class made fun of me. we lived in the basement of someone house for a decade.
my parents are still working 7 days a week. working class folks here.
we just know what hunger is, and what is essential in life, we are trying to get out of this class as much as possible by investing our pool resources much as possible. -
Although I may not be from a third world, I am a first generation American. Although I never went hungry, there have been many times when I was a kid that we ate pasta several times a week - simply because thats what was what we could afford. We were all encouraged to work, save and hopefully, eventually buy a home (and it HAD to be a multi-family building; no single family homes that would be selfish as well as not smart economically).
If modsquad is basing his opinion on a bad experience with one landlord, he has developed an unfounded prejudice against a group of people based on one. Do not take it personally. -
My landlord is a weirdo.
As another first generation kid, I have never in my life seen a work ethic like my parents have. I am a lazy slug compared to them - and I go to work no matter what. -
My first landlord was a total wacko as well - he used to butcher chickens in the basement - and I swore if I ever became a landlord I would be the complete opposite.
Yeah, mom and dad busted their humps. I have become Americanized (and according to mom, therefore spoiled and lazy). Dad worked six days a week, often working more than 10 hours a day. Mom worked as well and then came home and worked some more. -
Another first generation American here. My father was an orphan at a young age and yet got himself here, built a business and supported others in his family financially to get here as well.
My mom's family was so poor they sent her to live with her grandma so she could get an education (grandma lived in the city). She was also the first to come here and still supports her extended family.
Me? I'm totally lazy when compared to them -
Props to Flexi and Beave's families. It is amazing how our families came here, were proud to work hard (often for very low wages and for very long hours) and actually felt privileged to live in America. Yeah, my 80 year old momma was totally excited to have had the privilege of voting for Obama.
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My mom was so poor she got married for the rice.
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Dear Armchair and Domino,
Credit Checks are a hostile act. Armchair, if you are entrusted by your family to run this communally owned hovel then you need to get that money up front. Anything less is naive or stupid at worse.
Typical of nickel dime landlords is the threat of ruining someone's credit. We're all suppose to stand back while you wave that big dick around. Obviously you've never actually "ruined someone's credit", or you'd know how drawn out the process is. It works both ways too.
If you want sympathy go to Brownstoner. Oh wait, I haven't checked, maybe you have.
Enjoy jerking each other off.
Yours Truly,
Modsquad -
Damn Mod why the hostility - AW is a really nice down to earth person. And the remarks about him are really unnecessary
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Stacey,
AW in his deleted post, threatened to ruin somebody's credit over $40. Typical of landlords when they are not respected or liked by their tenants. Or maybe it's typical of Landlords when they are treated like landlords. -
Check again Mod - he was just venting. Welcome to 2009 - prospective EMPLOYERS run credit checks - a landlord is checking the renters ability to pay before signing a one year lease. Granted, very dumb move in not getting the $40 up front (although I think they are as low as $15) - and dumb move to POST he was thinking of ruining someone's credit - AW doesn't warrant the hate. C'mon, confess - haven't you had a little fantasy of doing that to an ex lfrom a relationship that ended badly? Same way not all landlords are scum, all tenants aren't saints.
PS - My favorite fantasy is sitting on someones back, clutching a fistful of their hair and smashing their face into the sidewalk until I hear their cheekbones splinter - but enough about the job. -
Armchair is a longtime and very honest member of this board. Sometimes he needs to vent like all of us do and gets good feedback to deal with the crap life hands him/us. I'm with Domino.
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With all due respect Mamacita, I gave AW good feedback. Given the fact that many of the people who blog on Brooklynian are tenants who daily struggle to pay rent or find a place to rent it can be disheartening to hear a landlord threaten the "credit" card so quickly. I make my living off of small landlords who on one hand want to be liked by their tenants and on the other wanting to be respected as the LANDLORD. AW need to grow a thicker skin but he is being honest when he threatens, it is typical of the Nouveau riche.
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modsquad wrote: Dear Armchair and Domino,
Excuse me??? This constitutes good feedback??? Credit checks are no more than a means to ascertain whether an applicant is able to support his end of a contract - namely a lease which WILL be binding upon both the tenant and the landlord. If the tenant is unable to pay his rent, and the landlord is dependent upon that rent to meet his financing obligations what would be the likely outcome? The tenant gets a few months free ride while the landlord faces the costs of eviction, credit damage and potential loss of his home/investment.
Credit Checks are a hostile act. Armchair, if you are entrusted by your family to run this communally owned hovel then you need to get that money up front. Anything less is naive or stupid at worse.
Typical of nickel dime landlords is the threat of ruining someone's credit. We're all suppose to stand back while you wave that big dick around. Obviously you've never actually "ruined someone's credit", or you'd know how drawn out the process is. It works both ways too.
If you want sympathy go to Brownstoner. Oh wait, I haven't checked, maybe you have.
Enjoy jerking each other off.
Yours Truly,
Modsquad
I find a credit check to be a reasonable request - the same way I would ask a landlord why the prior tenants left, how long the tenants were there, etc. HOWEVER, I have never asked applicants to pay for it.
AW was simply venting his frustration. I am sure he got the message that in the future, should he want a credit check, he should request the credit check fee to be payable up front. Or decline to pass along the charge to the applicant. I personally do not charge the fee - if I want to verify the applicants ability to pay, that is my choice and my option. I do not consider it an obligation of the prospective tenant.
As for earning your living off the small landlord - how can you honestly represent or deal with a client base that you so obviously detest or are envious of? -
modsquad wrote: Dear Armchair and Domino,
It was a rant, i would never do something horrible as that, if you read the original post, i said i could done that, don't these folks know i have their info to screw me over for $120! that was my thing.
Credit Checks are a hostile act. Armchair, if you are entrusted by your family to run this communally owned hovel then you need to get that money up front. Anything less is naive or stupid at worse.
Typical of nickel dime landlords is the threat of ruining someone's credit. We're all suppose to stand back while you wave that big dick around. Obviously you've never actually "ruined someone's credit", or you'd know how drawn out the process is. It works both ways too.
If you want sympathy go to Brownstoner. Oh wait, I haven't checked, maybe you have.
Enjoy jerking each other off.
Yours Truly,
Modsquad
right now i don't even make $100 a week! which is a lot to me. moving other peoples stuff is slow. alot of cancellations or fake ones etc.. waste of time and money.
its only sensible to run credit checks and background checks. without it we are just dealing with our instincts, instincts would be just that. we need a extra layer of protection. I really wouldn't like to deal with the pro tenant legal system especially if i dont have a large warchest to fight.
I don't nickle and dime my tenants.
if i have i would charge them quarters in the washer and dryer down stairs in my buildings.
I would actually taken my some of my old tenants to court for minor damages who used to use their security as last months rent instead.
I would be within my rights. I would also save myself a grand each month for a small house heating. the small house cost much as to heat my 6 family building. if my tenant put more than a tshirt and shorts on at home(she works from home) with windows open. it was within my rights cause it was heated above 95 for her. I sweated bullets every time i went to the building. she still complain it was too cold.
Since you really don't know who i am and make all these lovely generalizations about me. I could only say the following.
you really seem to be a pleasant person to be around. please don't ever rent from guys like me, I wouldn't want to ever deal with pleasant folks as yourself. the whole community feeling of my buildings would change.
i shall have no more words with you in any of my post. you would be totally ignored. have a nice day. karma is really a bitch. -
Domino,
You are missing my point. A landlord is a landlord is a landlord. In AW's "honest "rant he threatens to fuck up somebody's credit over $40. In my "honest" response I'm calling him out as a typical landlord, reminding everyone what a big dick he has. "don't fuck with da landlord or I'll fuck your credit!"
He can do all the credit checks he wants. That was never the issue. Don't expect a sympathetic ear from renters, honestly. -
armchair_warrior wrote:
Buildings (plural)??
if i have i would charge them quarters in the washer and dryer down stairs in my buildings.
AW,
I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of HEAVEN. -
armchair_warrior wrote:
AW. if this is true, I'm sorry. I sobered up when I read that...
right now i don't even make $100 a week!
Apologies,
Modsquad
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