For most of our adult life, I have been renting strange locales to live in, however i have had several apartments and more recently I have started renting whole houses.
I have had plenty of excruciating experiences with landlords… Usually concerns come up with either plumbing or the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C system, however now I don’t mind having to change the gas furnace filters or the air conditioning system filters, but I do have a concern when the landlord refuses to repair an Heating, Ventilation, and A/C system that is clearly having concerns; The locales I have lived do not belong to myself and others and therefore it was never our responsibility to keep up with the major components.
I have explained this to strange landlords, and honestly, it’s the reason why I would end up moving onto the next locale. I regularly hope that the landlord will be better when I move, but I never entirely was able to have that kind of luck. In our experience, all of the landlords only cared about the cash they were making from rent, and they cared about getting their rent payments on time. They seemed prefer they could care less about the comfort of the occupants in the dwelling, and after this last experience when the gas furnace failed in the winter, I was done. The landlord totally refused to have the gas furnace fixed. I entirely could have sued him for that, but I ended up just leaving the home because our lease was about to expire anyway. I then stayed with our sibling until I was able to buy our own home. I had enough cash saved for the downpayment and everything and I wanted to take care of our own home for a change. It turned out to be the best decision of our life!