Why are tenants so disrespectful of property rights?

The school of psychology known as Process Communication [PCM] has identified six fundamental human behavior sets [or personality types].

At any given time, PCM has shown that about 1/6th of all Americans [the proportion differs in other societies, which suggests that society exerts a significant influence on personality], have a personality type which offers little or no respect for others some or most of the time.

Alas, absent fundamental and very, very powerful psychology work, the individual is not able to choose his or her personality type. They're stuck with it until major [and very upsetting] life events occur.

These people can and will violate all of your rules and the agreements they've signed when the circumstances arise that impel their personality to do so. About all you, as a landlord or other property owner, can do is demand the maximum security deposit your state allows and inspect, inspect, inspect to discover which of your tenants need to be evicted.

My advice is to evict when you discover any violation. No exceptions, no excuses. Join a landlords group and exchange names of problem tenants. Refuse to rent to people other landlords have identified as problems. [This is just cause under the law.]

Even if you are capable of identifying a problem tenant from his or her behaviors in advance, if you refuse to rent to anyone who has any shred of a case that you refused for any other reason [discrimination, for example], it is very difficult to win the resulting lawsuit -- you'd need a psych expert's testimony [and her or his fee] and the other side will counter with a different expert from a different branch of psychology who says you can't successfully predict.

Not to mention that, as you've probably discovered already, there's another and potentially larger group of Americans who will cause damage or lease violations after their new boyfriend/girlfriend moves in and that person [who isn't on the lease] proves to be an agreement violator.

As you've guessed by now, these personalities do not disappear from humanity because they do have an evolutionarily useful role in the overall scheme of things. To greater or lesser extent, they exist in all societies.

Of course, our permissive of irresponsibility American society contributes significantly to maintaining these people. Less permissive societies have fewer [proportionately] than we do. [But they still exist.]

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There could be many reasons. If the tenant is alcoholic or a drug addict they most likely wont care much about other peoples property. Another reason could be cash. Rents these days are ridiculous. Its hard to afford to have a roof over your head so they may rent out their couch and bring in extra people. PETS!!!! Having a pet when living in apartments i not a good idea but if someone has a pet and they love that pet but cant afford extra deposits then of course they will try to hide the pet. I did that with a cat once.

Another reason could be someone who doesn't like the landlord purposefully trashing the place, especially on eviction. Ive done that myself. Lucky for the landlord the paint balls gun shot washable paint balls lol. Im older now then back then so I respect the landlord as long as they respect me. If a landlord is a complete jerk to their tenants they may just cut their own throats expecting a tenant to respect them back. There are just too many reasons why a tenant would do those things. I knew a guy in Oregon who fought with is wife all the time plus he did meth. Once he got evicted they needed a trash container to empty the house and all the doors had been ripped from the hinges. \

Best bet is don't rent to young egotistical boys especially if you smell beer at the first meeting lol.

Lack of maturity, low self confidence levels, and anti social behavior can also disrespect other tenants if they don't stop annoying and breaking the lease policies. This is why the younger tenants can be hard to deal as they still think they are children. I have always followed rules in my lease for the last 13 years from 22 to now 33. The problem is these days anyone who are in their 20's have become even more disrespectful. I'm not sure if its todays generation, but I think it is. More and more people are lack social skills, use social media as their way of communicating, texting, and their parents are either working too much, or not working at all. It depends on how you're raised on the level of respect for "kids" these days. I call them that now whenever they act up and don't listen to other adults, sadly, especially If they are annoying tenants on purpose, leaving things on all day long (like the bathroom fan, smoking weed, or illegal drugs in the bathroom, guests overstaying their welcome and living with the tenant who doesn't pay rent, or work, yelling, partying all night with talking and loud music) and while... thinking they are not doing anything wrong and blame the other tenants, calling them crazy, or put guilt on them from complaining, calling the cops, or reporting them to the landlord.. all that says.. they are not good tenants to begin with and why the hell would the landlord not doing anything about it until it becomes worse and worse to the point of damaging more of the unit, emotional turmoil to the neighbors, and public property? Its downright greed and carelessness if they ignore it.

Everyone deserves to live peacefully in their apartment that they pay for and respect eachothers space and privacy. If its broken, its the bad tenants own fault who should put on their adult pants instead of making their neighbors lives more miserable and taking advantage of them. I agree landlords needs to stop leasing out these type of younger people just for money and being too nice. I would give anything to evict my neighbors below me that have been breaking the lease since January and a letter was sent to them of a complaint by me. The bathroom fan is still overrunning itself, they never turn it off, they smoke pot and **** in there and some of my other "young" neighbors have harassed me because of their own insecure issues after partying so much and having to call the cops a few times. All the while I'm still here for 13 years putting up with all of these kids because its cheaper then other apartments around town. :( .

I have been a tenant for the 8 years on my own. I am now 26 years old, and had to learn the hard way that an lease is not just a piece of paper that i sign to get my apartment. An lease was not just an agreement with my property management of rules and regulations, but it was also a moral understanding that I must abide by.

But don't write them off by quoting "these type of people" who ever they may be. WE only become part of the problem when WE judge based on some peoples ignorance.

I am a landlord and I wish I could understand why tenants have no respect for the place they live in. I only have one rental, it's a duplex and I live in half of it myself. I doesn't help much being an on-site landlord. I've been awakened in the middle of the night and had to call the police to break up fights. The last tenant that moved out left me with over a $1000 in damages. He had kicked down the kitchen door, smashing the frame. I had to have new drawers made for the kitchen. The list goes on. I was lucky that when I finally decided I wanted them out was when he went into rehab and she came to me and asked if I was going to let them renew their lease and I told her that I loved her babies, but I had had all of him that I could take. They left in the middle of their last month. It would be pretty hard for someone to try and have a dog here, since I'm on-site and I allow cats because I have my own.

Because they can...

We can't sue them as even if we do win they have nothing to pay us and we just wasted all that time and money to get nothing. They've moved (of course) and we can't find them to serve them with court documents. The Landlord Tenant act helps the tenants and never the Landlords. By the time we can legally get them out of the property they've stayed free for almost a year...and who couldn't use free rent and utilities for a whole year...and then they move to the next place and repeat!!! and continue to live free. There should be a place we can report them, but if we try then we get sued. Thinking of selling my rental property as we've had 3 bad tenants and costs approx 5000 to fix it just for the next tenants to ruin it again.

When we rented out our house, for 6 months, back in 1966, we had the best. When we came back, our house was in better shape than when we left.

On the other hand, about the same time, my brother rented out his house to college students and it was almost destroyed. Lots of structural damage. He should have had post grad students that were serious about their education.

The difference, I think, we used a property manager to find our renters.and keep an eye on it.

As for the pet, maybe the landlord should give a bit.

hello all, i have been a landlord in excess of twenty years, for the most part......i have had and still contain some of the most respectful and helpful persons. always wanting to help and better his or her home.

the problem is, when someone is dishonest, or unworthy of the apartment, unit or flat they are calling home. this is what seems to make the news and people talk.

for the most, if your honest, they are honest.

Renters, for the most part, are people who have never owned anything more valuable than a car. There are a few in this group who simply never will respect other's rights. These are the people who are in the "entitlement class". In their view, since they are poor, the rest of the world owes them. Part of this debt is the property you own and their "right" to use it as they see fit, regardless of the written agree you have with them.

Seriously, I believe it is their mentality. Pure and simple and in a nutshell. Mine brings animals and people and drugs although they do pay the rent each month.

That's the answer Why tenants are so disrespectful.

What do we do about it?????

Good Luck