Landlords - what is your experience?

I was a homeowner once and would have continue if there were extenuating circumstance. For the last five years I live in an apartment with my boyfriend. Our landlord does not live here so he is not aware of what we see and hear. Outside of introducing himself we have never seen and or heard from him. Since we always pay on time I suppose he does not have a need to come out. He does have a janitor who maintains the building and that is a plus. When he bought the building last year, our rent boomed a $100 bucks a month. Since it is a bit cheaper then most in the area we decided to stay. Our noisy neighbors on the other hand are loud and disruptive. We have called and left numerous messages, and even emailed and never get a response. So we shall see how our move later this year goes, but I suspect we will not get cheated fairly as not a once has he returned a call. Hopefully he will be honest and return our full deposit as we have tidied the place up quite a bit.

Hi. Porcospino. The landlord that I have now tends to come by during the evening time. She stopped sending us receipts since last month. And, she came by on Saturday. Oh, how I wished that I was gone on this day! She claimed that my husband owes her over $200.00 for rent for February. My husband has already paid last month's rent which is February. So on Tuesday, he gave her a money order for $485.00 for March's rent. And he did not pay her what she claimed that he owed her. My husband has all of his money order receipts of all of the amounts that he has paid her. It is a shame that she waited until the end of February to holler that she needs more money from him. If he really owed her, then she would have been calling him the first thing during the first week of that month. She is just trying to scam us. We know that. She told my husband to call her if he has any questions. And he did call her, she told him that she would call him back, but she never did. So, when he paid for March's rent, he only paid for that, and that only. She thinks that she can just mix us up with how much of rent that we owe her. But little does she knows, my husband has been keeping his own personal records. She thinks that we are dumb and that we don't know what we have paid and what we have not paid. She tries to come over our house unexpectedly without calling him. She does this just so that she can throw us off track. I don't trust her anymore, and my husband doesn't either. We are always one step ahead of her!

I have not too many experiences of landlord as i have my own home but i have a rent house on my working place and stay here when i need. I did not give any security deposit as it's not required. He is a polite and poor person and sometimes he borrows money from me and adjust it with the fare. Have a nice day.

I haven't experienced dealing with a crappy landlord. My landlord right now is quite upbeat and welcomy. I choose my place very cautiously and that includes choosing the landlord/landlady.

Hi, Porcospino, congrats for your new house! I had the chance to inherit my apartment and before I have lived in a hose owned by my father-in-law. I haven't lived in a rented place but for a certain time we have rented part of the flat, with my mother living there. What you describe shows that the law in your country protects the landlord. Here is just the opposite. If somebody moves in your home it's hard to deal with many problems. Our last tenant refused to pay for the last 3 or 4 months. And we were afraid to kick him out because he had also bills to pay. We were lucky - at least he paid the bills :))

I have a very nice landlord way back when I am still renting an apartment. She is very considerate especially when I request/inform her that my payment would be late. When my time to leave came, I asked her to give me a month's free rental because I just needed a place to leave my things till my newly bought house was finished and she allowed me. I think most of the landlords are really not as good as her and I am lucky to find her and we are still friends till now.

I also have same problems with landlords. They demand more & more. Still I haven't came across a good landlord.