I'd say its a mixed bag, Bill. Some good landlords, some bad. They're people after all. What has really irked me in the past is not a single-owner landlord in the classical sense, but the new giant property companies, Weidner and the like. I lived for seven years in a large complex just off of Lake Otis and Dowling, that was just horrible. The fact that there was no real people relationship with a person at the company. The office staff was rotated out all the time, every six months to a year, with every new manager unaware of ongoing issues from the tenants side of things. At one point, our on property storage units were being broken into on a regular basis. A fee was assessed of 20 dollars a month to raise money for iron bar gates. We paid this for a long time and then the manager was just gone, moved to another property. When we brought it up to the new manager they were completely oblivious. There were 96 storage units over say 8 months at 20 apiece is $15360 swindled by thieves!!

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