Yup, totally agree. Renters are ready to take advantage of anything you can offer. They will come into your house that you worked hard to rest up and they will wreck the bejisus out of it. Every weekend I was there fixing a clogged toilet, looking a wet floors and walls in the kitchen. Just looking at my first big investment rot away.

In the end I broke even and I got out of that business. That’s a single people sort of work. It feels much like changing people’s diapers. Like the renters I got blessed with were lazy lazy people.

But then what is said is very true. I bet they could not afford to own a house so they end up stuck having to pay most of their earnings for a place to live. It becomes this vicious cycle where they don’t care about the house and expect that the property will be repaired and always like-new for them. And unfortunately it’s just not. A house depreciates, gets old and breaks down the minute you start living in it.