Mental Shift Win: Sensitive -> Angry
Bought a home last month that came with tenants who: "are always late but always pay"... (or so the owner told me). They only had 2-months left @ $650/mo in a $1,100/mo area and I picked up the home SubTo for $32k with $4,500 out of pocket, so I snagged it. Fast forward and there's a partial payment (I accepted). Next month, no payments so up went a 3-day notice (this is in Akron, Ohio btw). I get a call from the tenants with the bf yelling and the gf crying and I felt bad. I HATE feeling like the badguy but the tenants know that "I just work for the company". I also told the tenants that after Friday, "legal takes over and it's out of my hands". Friday comes & goes - I still feel bad for these guys and have to put up another 3-day notice (my contractor manages homes so he slaps them up for me). My contractor tells me the next day they were laughing when the 3-day notice went up and they immediately tore it down, BUT my mental shift went from being sympathetic to angry. I immediately engaged an attorney, sent in the $600 retainer fee and now feel much better. Still don't feel GREAT, but as a friend said: "If I have to choose between MY family vs someone else's family, it's an easy choice." I'm hopeful this won't be recurring, and I understand why the landlor wanted out so bad! But.... where there's pain there's profit!