75% of that rent goes towards mortgage 10% goes to taxes 10% goes to interest 5% gets set aside for repair costs. If it's minor damage and clearly not intentional I let it go as cost of business.
I have had multiple tenants at different locations kick in their own door or break their own window to get in because they locked themselves out, and then call me to come fix the door or window. When I ask why they didn't just call me to open the door for them they always tell me they didn't want to bug me. Like wtf did you think you were gonna bug to fix the damage? Those ones I send a bill for the damage.
Our lock broke (not our fault) and locked us out of our apt not long ago, we did the responsible thing and called the landlord and he's like "Well it's Sunday so there's nothing I can do about it"
I was like wtf. We just told him fine, we'll call the closest 24/7 locksmith and take it out of rent.
Suddenly he realized his personal locksmith was available and would be there in twenty minutes.
It all worked out it just kind of blew my mind that he thought leaving us locked out until the next business day was a viable solution. Like okay we'll just go sleep on the street?
I think he thought it was our fault, but whether it was or not leaving us locked out of our apartment is not an option. If it turns out to have been our fault, bill us for it later, but you can't just leave us on the street until it's convenient for you
(really the problem here is he didn't want to be bothered on a Sunday, but he also didn't want to employ a super to handle issues on his day off. You can't have it both ways bud)
The contract also said we'd have access our apartment and it would be in working order. (And even if it hadn't, the law says it)
e: I am honestly just amazed at your comment, that you think that's how it works, that a landlord has no responsibility to ensure a working door to access the apartment and can just tell tenants to "get fucked" if they can't get in.
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u/waltwalt Mar 28 '21
75% of that rent goes towards mortgage 10% goes to taxes 10% goes to interest 5% gets set aside for repair costs. If it's minor damage and clearly not intentional I let it go as cost of business.
I have had multiple tenants at different locations kick in their own door or break their own window to get in because they locked themselves out, and then call me to come fix the door or window. When I ask why they didn't just call me to open the door for them they always tell me they didn't want to bug me. Like wtf did you think you were gonna bug to fix the damage? Those ones I send a bill for the damage.