The joys of being a renter in this market!

[waiting hawk]

[quote=nocommonsense]With all due respect, what’s the matter with you all? Is it so inconvenient to help out a pregnant family who is in financial ruin? And they’re supposed to not list the house and risk losing everything just because you refused to show their house? Get a heart y’al! You ougtta be ashamed of yourselves. I can’t believe the cold heartedness in all these postings. Try imagine yourself in their shoes, what would you do?[/quote]

They could just let them out of the lease early. They dont need to go through this ordeal with them at all. Dont like 99% of all short sales require you to stop paying for three months (this is all common sense nocommonsence btw)? So whos the bad guy? Did doublewide get to stop paying for three months? My wifes pregant and I dont worry about going through those kind of issues because in the mood she is in she would beat the living s&!t outta me. People need to grow up and stop gamblin sometime heart or not.

I still love the ashtray on the table bit though!

Edit. I will add one more thing. I feel bad for the baby that will be brought into this world with stupid parents.

[doublewide]

So the consenus is, crime scene tape and chalk outlines by the front door would be overkill? Maybe some of those faux bullet hole stickers you see on cars – pop a couple in the front windows :>)

My nephew did say he’d bring over a few friends and tp the place to give it that “lived in” look.

Don’t know if the place has a NOD…I looked at SDlookup and it’s not there…Is there another site to check? My guess is they’ll stop paying their mortgage, if they didn’t already skip their November payment…How long till it shows up as a NOD after missing payments? We’re stuck here till March so it’ll be interesting to see how it all unfolds..

I can’t decide if these folks got some really bad advice from a pushy real estate agent or if they’re really this selfish..Must be a combo of both.

@ nocommonsense…FWIW we would have been happy to work with them and made the place shine for buyers had they been flexible and let us go at the end of December (only missing out on 2.5 mos. of rent) but their whole “cake and eat it too” attitude was messed up….

@ Alan in Fallbrook – that’s too bad about Fallbrook High…but thanks for the head’s up..

I have to admit to calling the listing agent on this property..As a side note though – he was hard to track down for a non-realtor person..No contact info on Zillow, only a company name(some brokerage based out of LA) on SDLookup, but did finally find a name and local # on Trulia. I’ve had my MIL on the case too, but neither of us has gotten through, it’s just his voice mail everytime. Basically we were each going to pose as an interested buyer and try to ferret out their plans for showing the place. We feel like we’re living on the edge now, knowing they’ve listed the place, waiting for the shoe to drop and get a call that they want to show the place…We’re paying rent to live in stress!!!

That biker gang meth lab is starting to sound like an option!!! Anyone got some Sudafed? ;~}

Doublewide

[doublewide]

So the consenus is, crime scene tape and chalk outlines by the front door would be overkill? Maybe some of those faux bullet hole stickers you see on cars – pop a couple in the front windows :>)

My nephew did say he’d bring over a few friends and tp the place to give it that “lived in” look.

Don’t know if the place has a NOD…I looked at SDlookup and it’s not there…Is there another site to check? My guess is they’ll stop paying their mortgage, if they didn’t already skip their November payment…How long till it shows up as a NOD after missing payments? We’re stuck here till March so it’ll be interesting to see how it all unfolds..

I can’t decide if these folks got some really bad advice from a pushy real estate agent or if they’re really this selfish..Must be a combo of both.

@ nocommonsense…FWIW we would have been happy to work with them and made the place shine for buyers had they been flexible and let us go at the end of December (only missing out on 2.5 mos. of rent) but their whole “cake and eat it too” attitude was messed up….

@ Alan in Fallbrook – that’s too bad about Fallbrook High…but thanks for the head’s up..

I have to admit to calling the listing agent on this property..As a side note though – he was hard to track down for a non-realtor person..No contact info on Zillow, only a company name(some brokerage based out of LA) on SDLookup, but did finally find a name and local # on Trulia. I’ve had my MIL on the case too, but neither of us has gotten through, it’s just his voice mail everytime. Basically we were each going to pose as an interested buyer and try to ferret out their plans for showing the place. We feel like we’re living on the edge now, knowing they’ve listed the place, waiting for the shoe to drop and get a call that they want to show the place…We’re paying rent to live in stress!!!

That biker gang meth lab is starting to sound like an option!!! Anyone got some Sudafed? ;~}

Doublewide

[doublewide]

So the consenus is, crime scene tape and chalk outlines by the front door would be overkill? Maybe some of those faux bullet hole stickers you see on cars – pop a couple in the front windows :>)

My nephew did say he’d bring over a few friends and tp the place to give it that “lived in” look.

Don’t know if the place has a NOD…I looked at SDlookup and it’s not there…Is there another site to check? My guess is they’ll stop paying their mortgage, if they didn’t already skip their November payment…How long till it shows up as a NOD after missing payments? We’re stuck here till March so it’ll be interesting to see how it all unfolds..

I can’t decide if these folks got some really bad advice from a pushy real estate agent or if they’re really this selfish..Must be a combo of both.

@ nocommonsense…FWIW we would have been happy to work with them and made the place shine for buyers had they been flexible and let us go at the end of December (only missing out on 2.5 mos. of rent) but their whole “cake and eat it too” attitude was messed up….

@ Alan in Fallbrook – that’s too bad about Fallbrook High…but thanks for the head’s up..

I have to admit to calling the listing agent on this property..As a side note though – he was hard to track down for a non-realtor person..No contact info on Zillow, only a company name(some brokerage based out of LA) on SDLookup, but did finally find a name and local # on Trulia. I’ve had my MIL on the case too, but neither of us has gotten through, it’s just his voice mail everytime. Basically we were each going to pose as an interested buyer and try to ferret out their plans for showing the place. We feel like we’re living on the edge now, knowing they’ve listed the place, waiting for the shoe to drop and get a call that they want to show the place…We’re paying rent to live in stress!!!

That biker gang meth lab is starting to sound like an option!!! Anyone got some Sudafed? ;~}

Doublewide

[doublewide]

So the consenus is, crime scene tape and chalk outlines by the front door would be overkill? Maybe some of those faux bullet hole stickers you see on cars – pop a couple in the front windows :>)

My nephew did say he’d bring over a few friends and tp the place to give it that “lived in” look.

Don’t know if the place has a NOD…I looked at SDlookup and it’s not there…Is there another site to check? My guess is they’ll stop paying their mortgage, if they didn’t already skip their November payment…How long till it shows up as a NOD after missing payments? We’re stuck here till March so it’ll be interesting to see how it all unfolds..

I can’t decide if these folks got some really bad advice from a pushy real estate agent or if they’re really this selfish..Must be a combo of both.

@ nocommonsense…FWIW we would have been happy to work with them and made the place shine for buyers had they been flexible and let us go at the end of December (only missing out on 2.5 mos. of rent) but their whole “cake and eat it too” attitude was messed up….

@ Alan in Fallbrook – that’s too bad about Fallbrook High…but thanks for the head’s up..

I have to admit to calling the listing agent on this property..As a side note though – he was hard to track down for a non-realtor person..No contact info on Zillow, only a company name(some brokerage based out of LA) on SDLookup, but did finally find a name and local # on Trulia. I’ve had my MIL on the case too, but neither of us has gotten through, it’s just his voice mail everytime. Basically we were each going to pose as an interested buyer and try to ferret out their plans for showing the place. We feel like we’re living on the edge now, knowing they’ve listed the place, waiting for the shoe to drop and get a call that they want to show the place…We’re paying rent to live in stress!!!

That biker gang meth lab is starting to sound like an option!!! Anyone got some Sudafed? ;~}

Doublewide

[doublewide]

So the consenus is, crime scene tape and chalk outlines by the front door would be overkill? Maybe some of those faux bullet hole stickers you see on cars – pop a couple in the front windows :>)

My nephew did say he’d bring over a few friends and tp the place to give it that “lived in” look.

Don’t know if the place has a NOD…I looked at SDlookup and it’s not there…Is there another site to check? My guess is they’ll stop paying their mortgage, if they didn’t already skip their November payment…How long till it shows up as a NOD after missing payments? We’re stuck here till March so it’ll be interesting to see how it all unfolds..

I can’t decide if these folks got some really bad advice from a pushy real estate agent or if they’re really this selfish..Must be a combo of both.

@ nocommonsense…FWIW we would have been happy to work with them and made the place shine for buyers had they been flexible and let us go at the end of December (only missing out on 2.5 mos. of rent) but their whole “cake and eat it too” attitude was messed up….

@ Alan in Fallbrook – that’s too bad about Fallbrook High…but thanks for the head’s up..

I have to admit to calling the listing agent on this property..As a side note though – he was hard to track down for a non-realtor person..No contact info on Zillow, only a company name(some brokerage based out of LA) on SDLookup, but did finally find a name and local # on Trulia. I’ve had my MIL on the case too, but neither of us has gotten through, it’s just his voice mail everytime. Basically we were each going to pose as an interested buyer and try to ferret out their plans for showing the place. We feel like we’re living on the edge now, knowing they’ve listed the place, waiting for the shoe to drop and get a call that they want to show the place…We’re paying rent to live in stress!!!

That biker gang meth lab is starting to sound like an option!!! Anyone got some Sudafed? ;~}

Doublewide

[temeculaguy]

I had almost this exact thing happen to me, one of my L/L’s were getting a divorce and wanted to sell short while I lived there. It was 2006 or 2007 and I really didn’t know what a short sale would entail, it was also a much slower market so I agreed with no caveats, I thought I’d be cool about it. What a mistake.

The only thing I asked was that I would be given at least an hour warning before a showing and my dumb ass allowed a lock box. I’d say 10% called an hour early, 70% called from the driveway and 20% just walked in, didn’t even knock.

Then the incident happened. I got in the shower without realizing that I hadn’t replaced the towels that I put in the laundry. While cursing myself for having to walk downstairs naked and wet to get a towel (single men don’t have linen closets filled with extra towels, it’s the law) so as I walk quickly to minimize the water damage, I am met in the upstairs hall by a nice couple and their middle aged male realtor. As we stand there staring at each other, all i can think to say is “how come every realtor I’ve met so far is hot chick and the one time I’ve got one upstairs and I’m naked, it’s a dude.”

I told the L/L that I’m done with this crap, they said they would not hold me to the lease and had the lock box removed so anyone who wanted to see it would have to go through me to see it on my terms. I moved out a month or two later, they sold the place, everybody is happy but everytime I see hat realtor chick I chuckle a little as to what might have been. If i ever decide to write porn screenplays, that will be my first.

You can learn from my story, tell them your husband is a nudist, refuses to wear clothes and likes to rub up against visitors (make up a syndrome name), that if they break the lease you can convince him to look for other rentals during the time of the open houses.

[temeculaguy]

I had almost this exact thing happen to me, one of my L/L’s were getting a divorce and wanted to sell short while I lived there. It was 2006 or 2007 and I really didn’t know what a short sale would entail, it was also a much slower market so I agreed with no caveats, I thought I’d be cool about it. What a mistake.

The only thing I asked was that I would be given at least an hour warning before a showing and my dumb ass allowed a lock box. I’d say 10% called an hour early, 70% called from the driveway and 20% just walked in, didn’t even knock.

Then the incident happened. I got in the shower without realizing that I hadn’t replaced the towels that I put in the laundry. While cursing myself for having to walk downstairs naked and wet to get a towel (single men don’t have linen closets filled with extra towels, it’s the law) so as I walk quickly to minimize the water damage, I am met in the upstairs hall by a nice couple and their middle aged male realtor. As we stand there staring at each other, all i can think to say is “how come every realtor I’ve met so far is hot chick and the one time I’ve got one upstairs and I’m naked, it’s a dude.”

I told the L/L that I’m done with this crap, they said they would not hold me to the lease and had the lock box removed so anyone who wanted to see it would have to go through me to see it on my terms. I moved out a month or two later, they sold the place, everybody is happy but everytime I see hat realtor chick I chuckle a little as to what might have been. If i ever decide to write porn screenplays, that will be my first.

You can learn from my story, tell them your husband is a nudist, refuses to wear clothes and likes to rub up against visitors (make up a syndrome name), that if they break the lease you can convince him to look for other rentals during the time of the open houses.

[temeculaguy]

I had almost this exact thing happen to me, one of my L/L’s were getting a divorce and wanted to sell short while I lived there. It was 2006 or 2007 and I really didn’t know what a short sale would entail, it was also a much slower market so I agreed with no caveats, I thought I’d be cool about it. What a mistake.

The only thing I asked was that I would be given at least an hour warning before a showing and my dumb ass allowed a lock box. I’d say 10% called an hour early, 70% called from the driveway and 20% just walked in, didn’t even knock.

Then the incident happened. I got in the shower without realizing that I hadn’t replaced the towels that I put in the laundry. While cursing myself for having to walk downstairs naked and wet to get a towel (single men don’t have linen closets filled with extra towels, it’s the law) so as I walk quickly to minimize the water damage, I am met in the upstairs hall by a nice couple and their middle aged male realtor. As we stand there staring at each other, all i can think to say is “how come every realtor I’ve met so far is hot chick and the one time I’ve got one upstairs and I’m naked, it’s a dude.”

I told the L/L that I’m done with this crap, they said they would not hold me to the lease and had the lock box removed so anyone who wanted to see it would have to go through me to see it on my terms. I moved out a month or two later, they sold the place, everybody is happy but everytime I see hat realtor chick I chuckle a little as to what might have been. If i ever decide to write porn screenplays, that will be my first.

You can learn from my story, tell them your husband is a nudist, refuses to wear clothes and likes to rub up against visitors (make up a syndrome name), that if they break the lease you can convince him to look for other rentals during the time of the open houses.

[temeculaguy]

I had almost this exact thing happen to me, one of my L/L’s were getting a divorce and wanted to sell short while I lived there. It was 2006 or 2007 and I really didn’t know what a short sale would entail, it was also a much slower market so I agreed with no caveats, I thought I’d be cool about it. What a mistake.

The only thing I asked was that I would be given at least an hour warning before a showing and my dumb ass allowed a lock box. I’d say 10% called an hour early, 70% called from the driveway and 20% just walked in, didn’t even knock.

Then the incident happened. I got in the shower without realizing that I hadn’t replaced the towels that I put in the laundry. While cursing myself for having to walk downstairs naked and wet to get a towel (single men don’t have linen closets filled with extra towels, it’s the law) so as I walk quickly to minimize the water damage, I am met in the upstairs hall by a nice couple and their middle aged male realtor. As we stand there staring at each other, all i can think to say is “how come every realtor I’ve met so far is hot chick and the one time I’ve got one upstairs and I’m naked, it’s a dude.”

I told the L/L that I’m done with this crap, they said they would not hold me to the lease and had the lock box removed so anyone who wanted to see it would have to go through me to see it on my terms. I moved out a month or two later, they sold the place, everybody is happy but everytime I see hat realtor chick I chuckle a little as to what might have been. If i ever decide to write porn screenplays, that will be my first.

You can learn from my story, tell them your husband is a nudist, refuses to wear clothes and likes to rub up against visitors (make up a syndrome name), that if they break the lease you can convince him to look for other rentals during the time of the open houses.

[temeculaguy]

I had almost this exact thing happen to me, one of my L/L’s were getting a divorce and wanted to sell short while I lived there. It was 2006 or 2007 and I really didn’t know what a short sale would entail, it was also a much slower market so I agreed with no caveats, I thought I’d be cool about it. What a mistake.

The only thing I asked was that I would be given at least an hour warning before a showing and my dumb ass allowed a lock box. I’d say 10% called an hour early, 70% called from the driveway and 20% just walked in, didn’t even knock.

Then the incident happened. I got in the shower without realizing that I hadn’t replaced the towels that I put in the laundry. While cursing myself for having to walk downstairs naked and wet to get a towel (single men don’t have linen closets filled with extra towels, it’s the law) so as I walk quickly to minimize the water damage, I am met in the upstairs hall by a nice couple and their middle aged male realtor. As we stand there staring at each other, all i can think to say is “how come every realtor I’ve met so far is hot chick and the one time I’ve got one upstairs and I’m naked, it’s a dude.”

I told the L/L that I’m done with this crap, they said they would not hold me to the lease and had the lock box removed so anyone who wanted to see it would have to go through me to see it on my terms. I moved out a month or two later, they sold the place, everybody is happy but everytime I see hat realtor chick I chuckle a little as to what might have been. If i ever decide to write porn screenplays, that will be my first.

You can learn from my story, tell them your husband is a nudist, refuses to wear clothes and likes to rub up against visitors (make up a syndrome name), that if they break the lease you can convince him to look for other rentals during the time of the open houses.

[patb]

[quote=waiting hawk]”Help me Rod. Help me help you.”

LMAO that was the funniest story I read ina while my wife was even laughing. I wouldnt show that place at all. Wow some people have some nerve you know they will (or have) kept collecting rent as they stopped paying for the place.

“I see stupid people” was the best bumper sticker I have seen ina while.[/quote]

I’ve known some tenants who say

“You can show the place but I want Half rent.”

I’ve known some tenants who particularly mess it up during this process, the landlord has a “Right of inspection” which they sometimes use to bring a prospective buyer through, but that doesn’t mean you have to clean up.

Leave some drug paraphanalia around , that usually scares off buyers.

[patb]

[quote=waiting hawk]”Help me Rod. Help me help you.”

LMAO that was the funniest story I read ina while my wife was even laughing. I wouldnt show that place at all. Wow some people have some nerve you know they will (or have) kept collecting rent as they stopped paying for the place.

“I see stupid people” was the best bumper sticker I have seen ina while.[/quote]

I’ve known some tenants who say

“You can show the place but I want Half rent.”

I’ve known some tenants who particularly mess it up during this process, the landlord has a “Right of inspection” which they sometimes use to bring a prospective buyer through, but that doesn’t mean you have to clean up.

Leave some drug paraphanalia around , that usually scares off buyers.

[patb]

[quote=waiting hawk]”Help me Rod. Help me help you.”

LMAO that was the funniest story I read ina while my wife was even laughing. I wouldnt show that place at all. Wow some people have some nerve you know they will (or have) kept collecting rent as they stopped paying for the place.

“I see stupid people” was the best bumper sticker I have seen ina while.[/quote]

I’ve known some tenants who say

“You can show the place but I want Half rent.”

I’ve known some tenants who particularly mess it up during this process, the landlord has a “Right of inspection” which they sometimes use to bring a prospective buyer through, but that doesn’t mean you have to clean up.

Leave some drug paraphanalia around , that usually scares off buyers.

[patb]

[quote=waiting hawk]”Help me Rod. Help me help you.”

LMAO that was the funniest story I read ina while my wife was even laughing. I wouldnt show that place at all. Wow some people have some nerve you know they will (or have) kept collecting rent as they stopped paying for the place.

“I see stupid people” was the best bumper sticker I have seen ina while.[/quote]

I’ve known some tenants who say

“You can show the place but I want Half rent.”

I’ve known some tenants who particularly mess it up during this process, the landlord has a “Right of inspection” which they sometimes use to bring a prospective buyer through, but that doesn’t mean you have to clean up.

Leave some drug paraphanalia around , that usually scares off buyers.

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