About Landlords, do you have any stories about tenants from Hell?
One story I want to relate: a friend experienced this one, not me.
The apartment was a beach front condo in San Diego. The owner had placed the unit with an agency for short term rentals for the summer. The unit was fully furnished, including kitchen utensils.
The occupant (I would call him a tenant but, tenants usually pay rent) moved in paying with a check. The management company accepted a personal check and what do you know, the check bounced. Can you guess who was on the hook for the bad check? Hint, it wasn’t the management company.
So, now, where short term rentals on the beach could possibly pay for the unit for the entire year, we actually find a long drawn out legal battle to get the interloper out of the unit. And instead of receiving rent the owner received substantial legal bills for the eviction.
And furthermore, when the perpetrator finally moved out of the unit, he took with a lot of the personal property.
Since this happened a long time ago, my recollection of all the details have become a bit sketchy.
I realize that Nevada landlord/tenant law differs greatly from that in California, and that this story probably would not happen here, at least to the same degree.
But, one lesson that I learned from this story was to always insist on cash, or cash equivalent before allowing a tenant to move into a property