Hi all
I'm at my wit's end and hoping someone can give me a small tidbit of advice.
I have studio rooms in Dunedin (7) in one complex. I have a mother of a tenant who is driving me mad with her constant texts! I've never actually heard from my tenant. She is complaining that the other tenants in the rooms are too noisy for her son, they do washing and slam doors during the night which keeps him awake. After her last text (last week) I asked her if he had talked to the other tenants to ask them to keep it down, I never got an answer to that question. Tonight I have had another text saying there is still too much noise for him and will I pay for him to move to a motel for 2 nights so he can get some sleep??!! My answer to this is a resounding NO. I have emailed and text all the other tenants in the building (twice) since her first text asking them to keep the noise down although I don't know it it's even an issue, this is the first complaint I have ever had regarding noise. There are 7 studio rooms in this relatively new building (4 years old) and I have owned them (we built them) for 4 years with no complaints from anyone ever. I haven't got back to her as yet as I'm just over it to be honest. I feel like telling her that unfortunately this is what happens in a living situation with 7 other tenants and that he maybe needs to harden up a little bit?! She has provided him with earplugs but that hasn't helped the poor wee sausage cope with other people living in the house. I will respond to her text tomorrow when my blood has stopped boiling but any clever ideas on what to say to her? I feel like I've done all I can, on top of moving him in to another room earlier in the year to try to minimise the amount of 'noise' he is exposed to, contacting all the other tenants and asking them to keep it down, what can I do? She can't seriously expect me to move him to a motel for 2 nights so he can sleep sweetly without interruption. Or can she?
I'm at my wits' end. The batch of tenants I have living here this year are more needy and demanding than I have ever known in my 15 years of having rental properties, what is going on with the youth (and their parents) of today? I get at least 5 - 10 texts a day from them wanting/demanding that I attend to some new whim. Don't even get me started on them locking themselves out at all hours of the night and demanding that I come and let them in immediately....which never happens. I didn't lock you out love.
Shares are looking like a very attractive investment option right now!
P.S. Sorry for the rant, I'm looking for a sensible and maybe witty response to this latest text/(rant) from the mother.
I'm at my wit's end and hoping someone can give me a small tidbit of advice.
I have studio rooms in Dunedin (7) in one complex. I have a mother of a tenant who is driving me mad with her constant texts! I've never actually heard from my tenant. She is complaining that the other tenants in the rooms are too noisy for her son, they do washing and slam doors during the night which keeps him awake. After her last text (last week) I asked her if he had talked to the other tenants to ask them to keep it down, I never got an answer to that question. Tonight I have had another text saying there is still too much noise for him and will I pay for him to move to a motel for 2 nights so he can get some sleep??!! My answer to this is a resounding NO. I have emailed and text all the other tenants in the building (twice) since her first text asking them to keep the noise down although I don't know it it's even an issue, this is the first complaint I have ever had regarding noise. There are 7 studio rooms in this relatively new building (4 years old) and I have owned them (we built them) for 4 years with no complaints from anyone ever. I haven't got back to her as yet as I'm just over it to be honest. I feel like telling her that unfortunately this is what happens in a living situation with 7 other tenants and that he maybe needs to harden up a little bit?! She has provided him with earplugs but that hasn't helped the poor wee sausage cope with other people living in the house. I will respond to her text tomorrow when my blood has stopped boiling but any clever ideas on what to say to her? I feel like I've done all I can, on top of moving him in to another room earlier in the year to try to minimise the amount of 'noise' he is exposed to, contacting all the other tenants and asking them to keep it down, what can I do? She can't seriously expect me to move him to a motel for 2 nights so he can sleep sweetly without interruption. Or can she?
I'm at my wits' end. The batch of tenants I have living here this year are more needy and demanding than I have ever known in my 15 years of having rental properties, what is going on with the youth (and their parents) of today? I get at least 5 - 10 texts a day from them wanting/demanding that I attend to some new whim. Don't even get me started on them locking themselves out at all hours of the night and demanding that I come and let them in immediately....which never happens. I didn't lock you out love.
Shares are looking like a very attractive investment option right now!
P.S. Sorry for the rant, I'm looking for a sensible and maybe witty response to this latest text/(rant) from the mother.
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