~Not Complaining-Just Different~
By Jennifer
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
Valdosta, Georgia
May 2, 2016 7:31pm CST
A few days ago we told the landlord that we have the rent. He told us he would get it the next day but never came. Then today he told us he would get it tomorrow. I know landlords are busy so maybe that's all it is. I just thought it was a little strange.
I am just used to "some" landlords getting their rent right away and if your a day or two late most of the time their not nice about it at all. We were trying to pay him early but he hasn't come yet. 
Lol, this is the first landlord we have had that takes his time to get his rent! 
Like I said in the title-not complaining just find it a little different that's all.
So, how is your landlord if you have one?
Lol, this is the first landlord we have had that takes his time to get his rent! Like I said in the title-not complaining just find it a little different that's all.
So, how is your landlord if you have one?16 people like this
18 responses
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
3 May 16
Our landlord is a junkyard dawg! If we are late, the phone starts ringing. If we are late a week, they are at our door with hand out!!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
3 May 16
@LovingMyBabies and they do little to improve their property too. They ask us to fix it and they will buy the materials. However, if you work all week long, do you really feel like working on a place that isn't your own?
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@ElusiveButterfly I'm sorry. =( That is more what I am used to from our past landlords.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@ElusiveButterfly Not many people want to work after they get off work. We had a landlord like that in our old house. Glad this one is different.
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@dodo19 (47336)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
3 May 16
It seems that most landlords want it right away. Some are understand. At our first apartment, my husband and I were usually pretty good about paying it on time. Although once or twice we couldn't pay until a week, week and a half after the first of the month. We'd tell our landlord, and he was pretty good about it. Some are flexible, while others aren't.
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@dodo19 (47336)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
3 May 16
@LovingMyBabies lol. I can imagine. I'd probably have to get used to it as well.
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@dodo19 Yeah I know! We have had some really tough landlords in the past so this one is a breath of fresh air for us. It will take us some time to get used to though. Lol.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@Hatley Well I am glad they just go straight there so you don't have to worry about it.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
3 May 16
@LovingMyBabies yes no problems and I get some money back lol lol
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
3 May 16
Having been a landlord, I've heard so many excuses why the rent could not be paid on time. If the rent check was late, how could I make the mortgage payment, replace the hot water heater, pay for snow removal....pay the taxes.....replace the roof. I am ecstatic that I am no longer a landlord.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@Morleyhunt I am sure you came and got the rent when someone said they had it early, didn't you? Lol, I am used to tough landlords-this I am not used to at all.
I could never be a landlord-everyone would live for free because I would feel bad asking them to leave for non payment-and I would be struggling to pay my own bills. Thank God I'm not one so I don't have to worry about that.
@Elizaby (6902)
• Pensacola, Florida
3 May 16
Our landlord is real good and when he decided to sell the house since he has moved to Tennessee gave us the first chance at buying the house @ a great price and waited while sis got her credit in order with the bank and on Wednesday they will close on the house and payments are going to be 300 dollars less than what we paid in rent each month
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@Elizaby That is so awesome! You are so lucky to have had such a good landlord like that! This is the first time we have a really good landlord. And I am so grateful!.
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@aldrinlee (42)
• Chengde, China
3 May 16
Now I don't know where he is even.in china,many people rather buy than rent.so there are many families are under a heavy debt after they buy a house.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@aldrinlee We can't buy a home since we have bad credit.
@aldrinlee (42)
• Chengde, China
3 May 16
@LovingMyBabies I prefer to rent rather than buy.In china ,house means "home".No house means "homeless".
@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
4 May 16
ive had different experiences with my previous landlords. one was living a block away so i go to his house and hand him my rent. one was living away so i used to deposit it to her bank account. one was living in the same building so that was more convenient. and many others.. good thing is they were not pushy or abusive when it comes to collecting it.
@Letranknight2015 (52090)
• Philippines
3 May 16
well, were landlords of our commercial business here, they don't pay full, probably a few in some days to the next.
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@IvySaysHi (4467)
• United States
3 May 16
My mother's landlord was awful. She would tell him about all the things wrong with the house and he refused to send someone to fix them. She broke her tendons and had to have so much surgery on her foot because she slipped going down the front steps of the house because he had them tiled and it was a rainy day. Some landlords are absolutely horrible.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@IvySaysHi We have had landlords like that-we call them slumlords. They don't want to fix anything but they want their money! Not right.
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@Marilynda1225 (83103)
• United States
3 May 16
I don't rent but I would assume most landlords expect their rent on the 1st. Sounds like you have a good one there
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
3 May 16
@JudyEv Yeah that's true. I just thought it was odd because we are so used to the opposite with the landlords we have had in the past.
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@rina110383 (24492)
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3 May 16
My landlady lives in the same building where I stay. I pay her my rent every 1st day of the month. She doesn't approach me to get the payment. It's the other way around. I have to approach her to give my payment so that I could get my receipt.
@carebear29 (31970)
• Wausau, Wisconsin
3 May 16
I usually just hold mine til he's able to pick it up
@Juliaacv (51447)
• Canada
3 May 16
It sounds like he's very busy and that he has a lot of trust in you that you'll have it when he comes along for it. I think that is a good sign.
The last time we had to pay rent was when our son was away at university. I had to provide a year's worth of checks to cover the rent for each month that he was living there when he signed the lease agreement. It made it really easy as far as knowing that he had the checks but there were a couple of times that it didn't come off but our son told us that he was out of the country during those times.
