We have a previous neighbor who got fuckin railed by a tenant. It was the first and last time they tried to rent a property. They were the old couple everyone loved in our neighborhood. And they only moved so they could help raise their grandkids. Some of the nicest people I’ve ever known became landlords.

The tenant was a state sponsored recovering drug addict. She had recently gotten her kids back. Then covid hit and our state put a moratorium on evictions. She immediately stopped paying rent, started breading dogs, trashed the house, ruined the septic, and barely took care of her kids. The dogs kept escaping and attacking other dogs, some sort of pit bread that she was trying to sell. The whole house was filled with feces. She bought 3 campers and parked them into our shared road. The county couldn’t do anything to stop this literal garbage human from fucking over these gold standard landlords.

After she was evicted the whole house had to be renovated and the septic system had to be replaced. Over $100k in damage by 1 tenant. They will never rent again. Which is sad because they were very forgiving landlords. Rent was like 50% of what they could charge and the house was very nice.

The whole situation convinced me that its not really that good landlords can’t exist. The problem is the few shit tenants scare the good ones away. The only ones that stay in the game are the bad ones because can tolerate the dogshit tenants. This was my worst example, but I know two other families that tried being landlords and got burned as well.