What percentage of landlords have problems with tenants?

100% of landlords.

Only about 20% of tenants are problem free.

The percentage of landlords that have problem tenants are probably at the 100% mark. At some point in a landlord life they are bound to encounter a problem.

The most common are #1. failure on the tenants part to pay the rent #2. leaving the property in need of repair #3. Children doing things that cause damage needing pair while still tenants #4. Moving others in claiming they are relatives and would only be in the rental unit for a few days. These the more apparent ones.

You then have to put up with those that would want use drugs while being a tenant. The spouse abusers and child abusers.

You also have those that would try and sue you for every little thing that would happen in the rental unit. Not doing repairs in a timely manner. Reporting you to the health department, calling the local tenant action groups.

Then you have the tenants that think they own your property.

It is a great job when you eventually learn to screen your potential tenants that would eliminate many of these potential problems. You would have to be a problem solver,a parent to some, a banker to others and soothe hurt feelings for mishaps they have in their lives.

I hope this has been of some benefit to you, good luck.

"FIGHT ON"

I rent out rooms in my home, rather than separate apartments, and have had about 49 tenants in the years I've been a landlord, and I have not tended to have any of the kinds of problems you describe vis a vis nonpayment or damage to my property. I have had only one person who paid rent late, and it was only a few days late each month, but eventually I asked that person to leave. I have had only one person who damaged a wall by gluing a mirror onto it. Apart from that the problems I have had with tenants were of a different type: one had a psychotic break (their parents came to get them), and a few of the tenants (about 7 total out of the 49) decided that they didn't need to respect some element of my house rules any more, either smoking on the premises, or inviting over guests too often, or were a bit too noisy. THose I asked to leave my house as well.

Although it can be more work, I think it is actually a better idea, and it generally makes a landlord more money, to rent out rooms in any residential property, rather than renting the whole property out. THis works better if you have properties with more than 2 bedrooms. For instance if you have a house with 4 bedrooms, don't rent out the whole house to one party, rent out rooms to separate, unrelated people who don't know each other. If you have a 3 bedroom apartment, rent out rooms rather than the whole apartment. THis way you have more control over who is there, and the people there are more related to you (you picked them) than to each other. If you have one "senior" tenant there who more or less manages the others, this works even better. This is 2nd best thing to you living on the property yourself. WHen either you live on the property yourself, or have a "manager" tenant there, you will tend to have fewer problems. ALso, I believe there is a correlation between a landlord's ability to judge character and/or be intuitive about potential renters ( a skill that develops over time) and the number or type of problems they are likely to have. A good judge of character will have fewer problem tenants. There are a lot of great tenants out there and they can be yours if you know how to attract them and know them when they show up at your door. You have to mostly learn not to give so much weight to what people SAY they will do or what they say they are like, and give more weight to what you OBSERVE about them.

I've been a landlord for 25 years. 70% of my tenants have been a problem. Mostly not paying on time or not paying at all. Most seem to have a sense of entitlement and perceive that I'm rich...which I am not. Even with my rental income, we barely get by with paying a mortgage, taxes, insurance, utilities and maintenance.

All landlords deal with tenant problems, no one escapes

Young people are the worse tenants but since you can't discriminate by age you learn to deal with them

a lot i guess from my experience. my tenants were awful, always trying mess with us. we had to commute about 3 hrs every week to fix stuffs because they would break it and blame us. in the end we kicked them out after a long fight in a court. we then rented the place again. tenants were even more awful. they didnt pay rent except for a month. they were dirty. we had to kick them out too. and after kicking them out we had to clean up all the mess they left behind and donate it to goodwill and drop it there because they didnt take their mess up with. i remember i had to call my friends as well to pick up diapers full of **** in a black trash plastic those were already eaten by raccoon, and load it to the van and dump it. i mean they were so lazy that that they didnt even have a time to dump their babies ****. and i realized never rent it by yourself again. so we sold the house and now we have a new house that management company takes care of a rent on our behalf. we are free now. dont let this happen to you.

100% of landlords will encounter such problems over time. Some have LESS of such problems, and others more, but ALL will eventually face a tenant who causes problems.

on average about 50% of the time,

you can cut those things WAY down by verifying who they are or only renting to people who other friends know and trust....

Take a look at where they are living now and that will be a good clue as to how your place will look.

ALL landlords have those types sooner or later.

even high dollar rentals.

we vet our clients to the point we lose

9 of 10 b4 we sign them up.

of those we do business with we have less than

0.005% issues.

Probably all of them. I have yet to know anyone who rents property that doesn't have tenent problems of some sort.Usually their property is trashed, or the tenents are late in rent payment.