I'm a sensitive type who's always taken things too personally.
I also have two IPs that I lived in while doing them up. Lots of (literally) blood, sweat and tears in every wall. So it gets to me when I have to (or so it seems) do it all over again a few years later because tenants have been rough on them, tried to hide the damage with botch-up jobs and been let down by property managers who haven't noticed (!?) and refunded the entire bond.
I'm currently finding it hard to swallow that the brand new kitchen I designed and the bathroom vanity that I searched high and low for are both swelling (MDF) due to tenants not ventilating the property and that the newly-laid carpet from a couple of years ago has to be replaced, again, on my dime. Not to mention the rest of the metre-long to-do list.
So how do you divorce yourself from the emotions? Have people here managed to overcome the anger, frustration, depression etc. to keep going, or is it best to admit that one just isn't suited and move on?
I'm also a bit of a procrastinator, which perhaps isn't ideal in a landlord.....
I also have two IPs that I lived in while doing them up. Lots of (literally) blood, sweat and tears in every wall. So it gets to me when I have to (or so it seems) do it all over again a few years later because tenants have been rough on them, tried to hide the damage with botch-up jobs and been let down by property managers who haven't noticed (!?) and refunded the entire bond.
I'm currently finding it hard to swallow that the brand new kitchen I designed and the bathroom vanity that I searched high and low for are both swelling (MDF) due to tenants not ventilating the property and that the newly-laid carpet from a couple of years ago has to be replaced, again, on my dime. Not to mention the rest of the metre-long to-do list.
So how do you divorce yourself from the emotions? Have people here managed to overcome the anger, frustration, depression etc. to keep going, or is it best to admit that one just isn't suited and move on?
I'm also a bit of a procrastinator, which perhaps isn't ideal in a landlord.....
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