As a renter with pets and kids, it is always a stressful time when the landlord comes over. Anyone with an infant turning to a toddler knows that a child this age works over a home to say the least. There are splorch spots all over the rug… we try to take care of them as fast as possible but it is impossible. Of course we will get the run professionally cleaned when we leave but still. As clean as we try to keep the house, again, our kids are like 1 and 2 so invariably it looks like somewhat of a tornado…We take good care of the lawn but we have large dogs and they are female… anyone with large female dogs knows that they will spot up a lawn no matter what…One digs a little bit as well… It is just little things like this that landlords don’t like to see.
So I know what eccen is saying. Now being a landlord I understand as well… I go over to my tenants in Talmadge, they are a couple of men who have been together for many years and rented out my place 2 years ago. No kids, no pets… to say they keep the place impecable is an understatement. Now I go to my place in Crown Point, young couple with a baby and two dogs… I CRINGE everytime I go there.
I don’t know if I would call it second class citizenship but I do know what eccen means. Also having 3 landlords in the past 3 years has been quite a chore.
For some people it is much easier to rent then for others.
