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Last night's rumble

January 21st, 2010 at 04:31 pm

So there was a situation last night regarding the tenents who live upstaires. (Background: We have 3 college kids who are 4 months away from finishing up the 2nd year of a 2 year lease.)Last night around 3:45am a fight broke out. I was woken up by the banging and stopming. I woke up BB and we immediately assumed 1 kid was locked out and was banging on the door to wake his roomates to let him in. BB went outside with the keys to let the kid into his unit and on the 2nd floor balcony was a 2 kids just going at it. BB yelled at them to stop which they immediately did- but one kid immediately asked if he could spend the night downstaires in our unit, to which we responded "Of Course."

So the kid sleeps in our guest bedroom and when he gets up in the morning he and BB talk about last night. Seems 1 roomate is graduating in 4 months and all he does every night is get belligerently drunk. The other roomate wanted to call 911 last night on the drunk roomate but they didnt. And the fight broke out.

The kid who slept in our unit wants to move out. He finished up his associates degree in December, has not been able to find a job, and wants to return to New England where his parents are- but he has been staying because he is tied to the lease. To make it worse- the kid who wants to leave was in AA recently and now no longer wants to be around drinking or drunk people.

I was already at work when this conversation took place. BB sent the kid back upstaires to work it out with the option that if he can get the other 2 kids to take over his 3rd of the rent- he can go. I am inclined to let the kid go anyways and absorb the $350 month loss because the long term consequenses of an AA recovering person living with a drunk is worse than the $1400 we would be losing. BB is not on board with that- telling me I am not their mother. Smile

So I think regardless- the lease ending in 4 months is not going to be re-newed. We will have to find new tenents. BB and I are going to go over our options tonight about this situation- and what to do about getting new tenents.

Offhand I think our best bet will be asking a realtor to find us a tenent. The realtor can let the applicants in and out of the unit (because I work so much)- and screen their background checks. (I dont know how to do that.) I think we pay a small fee- like 10% of the first few months rent?

2 Responses to “Last night's rumble”

  1. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
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    Hope the apartment survives without too much damage!.... The house next door to us was rented out to various students for years and they always seemed to be great tenants. All of them were allied health or med school students, half of them foreign students. I always thought that if I ever had to be a landlord I might increase my chances of finding good tenants by advertising at those schools.... For short term renters who use the apartment lightly--I notice on our Craigslist there are often "wanted to rent" ads from medical students or medical researchers who just need an apartment for a few weeks and who say they will only be there a few nights a week. That could give a landlord time to get in and do spiff-ups even while keeping a tenant.

  2. Jerry Says:
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    Ugh, what a mess! It is true that there is simply no insurance for tenants, or the types of people that they turn out to be... I hope that this leads to something better and an improvement in tenants. We have had good success with medical students and graduate students, as well.
    Jerry

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