Somehow I think that landlords and retail stores are only the beginning.
As an employer, I will never hire someone who isn't a family member, a friend, or a friend of a trusted associate whose referral carries a lot of weight.
The same goes for tenant-landlord relationships, to the extent I have some measure of control over that.
What did your lease say?
We’ve had a culture breakdown - so everything needs to be written out now a days.
Kind of like the first three pages you read when buying a new appliance: ‘don’t operate washing machine if you’re standing in a foot of water and your electric outlets are sparking’... etc. etc.
Write out all the common sense morality things in the lease because it’s not ‘common sense’ anymore.
If I was in your position I would have raised the issue of the air conditioner with the former tenant at this point in time -- in writing.
Rights to property in general are being eroded. Landlords never had it easy given renters legal rights, and I once owned a rental losing over 4 months rent trying to evict someone who stopped paying the agreed rent.
Today the right to property is under attack from many fronts. Not only squatters but some previously unknown endangered species can rob you of the use of your property, but the true intent by those attacking property rights is the same and it is not in good faith.
It is all part of the Marxism we are being exposed to, and we have to push back.
If you think you own your property quit paying your property taxes. You’ll eventually find out who really owns it.
Somehow I don’t see the notion of “morality” at issue here.
The new morality is definitely in play.
Meanwhile one of the residents had decided to do his own research and had his patio resurfaced probably with an even better coating.
Despite this it was against the HOA laws and we forced him to remove the coating and then allow the HOA to resurface his patio with the standard.
So he had to spend his money on coating and removing the coating. He fought of course, but lost. In the long run this was good for the HOA because if we had let it stand then others would have used it as a precedent to do their own changes to the exteriors of their properties.
As soon as the landlord had found out about the AC he should have taken it out, repaired the hole, and charged the tenant for the costs of repairs. He may have had to go to court, but allowing the AC to stand, even if it was an improvement, was a bad idea.
There is a new entitlement mindset that says screw your morality, if you have more than me, you owe it to me to allow me to take whatever you have for myself. So, you own the house, you owe it to him to allow him to make changes to the house, keep the AC, and fix it however he pleases, because you are obviously rich.
We saw this attitude up close with the behavior of our daughter’s three new stepdaughters. These early twenty somethings thought they were entitled to take any piece of clothing, jewelry or make-up our daughter had, because she could obviously afford to replace the items. For their first Christmas, they were sure they were getting new Iphones from us, based solely on their assumptions about our income based on the suburb we live in. Our daughter ended up moving a thousand miles away to protect herself and her family from those girls.
I don’t think we realize how thoroughly Marxism has been inculcated into our youth.
Residential tenants have been enjoying the fruits of bleeding heart liberals for many decades. Courts favor them whenever possible which is virtually always.
Furthermore if you rent to a friend you will lose not only money but a friend.
Assume you will always get the shaft, sooner or later. Avoid residential rentals.
You don’t arrest shoplifters and looters anymore?
You bury them in the woods.