As one of my female tenants stops paying rent and another is wittering on about the upstairs flat moving furniture about and it being noisy. I ask myself "are female tenants more trouble?" I think the general assumption from most landlords is that female tenants will be:
- Quiet
- Neat & tidy & house proud
- More organised and concerned about paying the rent
- Leave the property in a better state when they move out
Simplistic I know. But many newbie landlords in particular will start with this stereotype. I have to say after 20 years of renting out property, nothing could be further from the truth. My most house proud tenant is male and as he rightly points out my rental property is his home and just like and homeowner he is constantly looking to improve his home environment. This is admirable and understandable, even if his regular prompting emails about the latest round of upgrades can get a little tiresome. My experience to date is that the only tenants to stop paying the rent have been female and as a consequence from my perspective I can only conclude that they are. Other landlords insights and views welcomed.
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Fully agree. I manage around 40 tenants and the only ones to have ever been trouble are female. It seems the young are especially worse. I look for houseproud males now.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience I have found female tenants to be worse than the males.
ReplyDeleteI work for a property management company and 100% of the complains we received in the last 5 years are from tenants are from female.
ReplyDeleteNever, not a single one from a male.
Worst thing is that whenever you prove they are wrong, they call your manager and they say that I was rude with them.
I totally agree and Im female ! I had 2 rather overweight females tenants the heavier of which broke her bed the couch (her weight snapped the frame ) and 3 dining chairs . She and her house mate left the flat filthy were constantly late with rent and accused me of racism and threatened to take me to court when I deducted money from their deposit to cover costs and breakages. The men I rent to a the moment have been lovely and are much cleaner then this gruesome twosome were
ReplyDeleteGenuinely fascinating! I've had 7 flats for a few years and no issues with the ladies. The only two tenants I've had real disputes with were male.
ReplyDeleteI got to the point where I asked the tenant finding agent to target girls. Strangely, since then the successful applicants have all been males and they've been good so far.
I also find that blacks, gays and disabled people are also terrible tenants.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that, I can't say that, you say? Sweeping sexist generalisations are just as offensive.
Having been both a tenant and a landlord I find that either gender are only 'trouble' if there is reason to complain. If you are a decent landlord providing a good property, with rent and terms which are fair for both of you then you will probably do alright with most properly vetted tenants.
From my experience as a landlord females aged between 25 to 40 particularly single ones seem to be hassles.I've had 5 break leases 3 are single females with 2 as young couples all in that age bracket.The men seem to be more together and realistic about things.
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