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Landlord Education
If you’re visiting this site, you most likely found us via a search result. Although I haven’t actively posted here since 2013, there is still plenty of information for landlords buried in the 100’s of posts and articles here. However, if … Continue reading
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Dealing With Professional Tenants
Professional Tenants Understand the System If you aren’t familiar with the term, you would think a professional tenant is just someone with no intent on ever owning and intending on staying a tenant forever. Talk to a landlord who has … Continue reading
A Fun Email From a Potential Tenant – NOT!!
Strange Tenant Emails Ok, it’s been a couple days now, I am no where near as annoyed as I was when I received the original email and I even made time to make an extra special video up for this … Continue reading
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Tagged filling vacancies, funny tenant story, Real estate humor, Tenant problems
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Why Don’t Tenants Read The Ads?
This post is just a short little pet peeve of mine. Part of being a landlord is learning to write ads that do a portion of your work for you. If you don’t put little qualifiers in place such as … Continue reading
Why Don’t They Screen Tenants?
It’s amazing how many problem tenants could be avoided if landlords just properly screened tenants before handing over the keys. Here are some screening tips to help make it easier. Continue reading
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Tagged Landlord Advice, Landlord Tips, Real Estate Investing, screening tenants, Tenant problems
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No One Saw It Coming – The Aftermath
As with many of my tenant stories, we never really know what triggered someone going slightly off or believing they could do what ever they wished. It seems this holds true with this story as well. Karen and I went … Continue reading
He Never Saw That Coming!
I hope you have been enjoying this story so far, if you haven’t read part 1, which was titled I Never Saw That Coming, you really need to start there; otherwise, it’s just not as much fun! You can go … Continue reading
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Tagged alberta eviction, deadbeat tenants, drunk tenants, funny tenant story, Real estate humor, Tenant problems
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I Never Saw that Coming!
Strange night last night, it seems I get to say that far too often, hmmm. It appears one of my tenants may have a bit of a drinking problem. I was sitting at viewing night for my girls’ dance class … Continue reading
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Tagged Evictions, funny tenant story, Landlord Tips, Real estate humor, Tenant problems
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Pissed Off at Tenants
This post has been a long time coming, so let me back track a bit for you. It was during 2009 my former business partner managed to find some contacts within Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) that needed housing for … Continue reading
Today’s humorous tenant email
You can tell things are picking up for our shared accommodation properties by the number of humorous emails I get. It’s always fun to observe that people will go above and beyond when it comes to overlooking the obvious. Today’s … Continue reading
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Courthouse – Part 2
Want to know how to waste two hours of your time? Get subpoenaed as a witness and then discover that the officer neglected to update you that the court date changed, that’s how. What a pisser as I had things … Continue reading
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Tagged deadbeat tenants, funny tenant story, Tenant problems
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Bad Tenant – Off to The Courthouse!
OK, just so you know, this isn’t even an eviction. I had a tenant “allegedly” steal a vehicle from another tenant last year at knife point. I know, I get to deal with great people. Worse yet, this was part … Continue reading
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Secondary Suite Rules Relaxed in Calgary?
Just noticed a story out of the city council meeting last night where the council has erased zoning restrictions on secondary suites designated for narrow properties. So what does that mean? For some reason if doesn’t change anything for older … Continue reading
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Tagged Calgary Real Estate, Landlord Advice, Real Estate Investing, secondary suites
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Am I Biased? Would You Rent to Them?
It seems like wingnuts are flying off the shelf these days and I am receiving even more content for a potential book about tenant stories. Here is the email I received the other day in response to one of my … Continue reading
Why Tenants Are Not Your Friends
the relationship between tenants and landlords is first and foremost based on business, don’t forget this and allow your tenants to become friends unless your pocketbook and bank account can afford it! Continue reading
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