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I am always so amazed at the things tenants do. I used to rent out a house here in town, and got better prices by renting to students, so it didn't surprise me when a neighbor called to say that some football players were trying to steal the wood stove (big cast iron thing) or when another group was leaving and revealed that the kitchen sink had been stopped up for three months (I'd have sent the plumber if I'd known).
But now my sister and I have this house at the beach, and we're very careful about not renting to houseparties or to people who don't sound responsible. The house is not on the ocean, but across the creek from the beach--you have to drive to the beach--so mostly we get older couples and some families, who are great tenants. We haven't had a damage deposit because we rarely get damage.
( the creek )
Now the housekeeper has called to tell us that the last group broke a ceiling fan--not just the blade, which could be replaced, but the bracket that holds the blade--just snapped it off. Keep trying to imagine what they could have been doing...I once pulled a fan off the ceiling by covering it with a drop-cloth while painting, but that's the only time I've damaged one. Maybe one of the renters is very tall and very hardheaded. These same people also broke a key, which isn't a real expense, but equally hard to figure. Maybe they do psychic tricks--really, really well.
Really bugs me that they left and didn't tell us about the fan, (which will need to be totally replaced, and matches another fan in the same room, so we'll have to replace both, probably). And that makes me think they won't pay up when we write them. Grr.
But now my sister and I have this house at the beach, and we're very careful about not renting to houseparties or to people who don't sound responsible. The house is not on the ocean, but across the creek from the beach--you have to drive to the beach--so mostly we get older couples and some families, who are great tenants. We haven't had a damage deposit because we rarely get damage.
( the creek )
Now the housekeeper has called to tell us that the last group broke a ceiling fan--not just the blade, which could be replaced, but the bracket that holds the blade--just snapped it off. Keep trying to imagine what they could have been doing...I once pulled a fan off the ceiling by covering it with a drop-cloth while painting, but that's the only time I've damaged one. Maybe one of the renters is very tall and very hardheaded. These same people also broke a key, which isn't a real expense, but equally hard to figure. Maybe they do psychic tricks--really, really well.
Really bugs me that they left and didn't tell us about the fan, (which will need to be totally replaced, and matches another fan in the same room, so we'll have to replace both, probably). And that makes me think they won't pay up when we write them. Grr.
