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Did Your Tenants Pay May 1st Rent?
Friday, May 1st, 2020It’s Important To Pay Your Rent To Your Small Landlord
Saturday, April 18th, 2020
My name is Laura and I post under my name on the Nova Scotia Landlords Forum. I’ve been active there for years to try to help other tenants and give some of my advice to help small landlords too.
These are crazy times for everyone.
And while tenants are suffering it’s also important to know your landlord might be suffering too. This pandemic is hurting everyone.
We Need To Stick Together
I used to own a house and we rented our basement out years ago and it really helped us cover our mortgage. When my husband died my children were grown so I decided to sell the house and rent.
Renting has a lot of advantages.
I don’t have to worry about any maintenance issues and my landlady has a service to cut the lawn and plow the snow. My landlord cover my utilities so she can get just one payment each month to keep things uncomplicated.
My landlady is a teacher and her husband has his own contracting company and they are terrific.
“Are You Going To Pay The Rent?”
When all this chaos started in March and the government said “tenants don’t have to pay rent” my landlady called me and asked me if I was going to pay the rent.
I told her “of course I will”. She was thankful and said if I needed a break just call her.
My Landlady Is Professional and Kind, And I Make Paying Rent A Priority
I’m in a pretty good situation where I don’t need to worry about buying food and my children are adults now. I know others might not be as safe as I am.
I’m going to pay the rent not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because I want to keep my excellent relationship with my landlady and know that if I don’t pay rent it could hurt her financially (and even lead to her selling this place).
Pay You Rent And If You Can’t Call Your Landlord
My landlady isn’t some big global corporation. She and her family invested and thanks to them I have a great place to stay at a great price.
Rent Strike Hits Small Landlords, Not The Corporate Landlords
-Not paying rent will just get rid of the small nice landlords who care about you.
-Not paying rent will not impact the big heartless corporations.
-The whole “rent strike” people are likely corporate landlords who want to get rid of small landlords who are their competition. At least that’s what I think.
Stay Home and Stay Safe!
I’m so happy to have a great rental with a great landlady. I feel safe and don’t ever want to move.
With Love And Wishing Everyone Stays Safe,
Laura
PAY YOUR RENT CAMPAIGN 2020
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
Smart Tenants Will Pay Rent & Cooperate With Your Landlord For a Win-Win Situation
Small landlords know the challenges tenants face. Because we faced them too! Many us were renters before.
We want to work with you to keep you renting from us.
Please know that just because we own a rental property, or rent out our basement, doesn’t mean we are rich. We aren’t.
Many of us are working class people who have decided to avoid the crazy stock market and buy a rental property to help us when we retire.
We need rent to be paid so we can also survive and want to cooperate with you to make sure we have a win-win relationship. We have to pay our mortgage, property taxes, insurance, maintenance.
There are calls saying “Don’t Pay Rent” all over social media
We want to make sure tenants know good landlords want to work with you for all of us surviving.
We support tenants in need, but many of us are also on the financial edge!
To prove our support, thousands of landlords and this association are lobbying both the provincial and federal government to create a nation-wide “rent bank” that will help tenants in need get grants or low-cost loans to pay rent.
This will make sure there is no “landlord-tenant” conflicts or haggling and keep landlords in business and tenants safe in their rental homes.
Something similar to the Canada student loan system where people in temporary need get financial help from the government.
Landlords want to work with tenants (and tenant groups) to make this happen. And happen fast!
Avoid The “Don’t Pay Your Rent” Memes and Media
This isn’t a poor tenant vs. a rich evil landlord issue.
It’s a working class tenant facing challenges renting from a working class small landlord who is also facing challenges.
If you don’t pay rent (like so many are saying) it will lead to eventually being evicted with large debts, and your search for a new home will include no reference and bad credit.
Good Landlords and Good Tenants Working Together
Tenants make sure you pay your rent on time, or work it out with your landlord.
Short term easy answers like “don’t pay rent” will lead to unnecessary problems for tenants a few months from now.
These groups should be joining us to lobby for a nation-wide rent bank to truly help tenants instead of wanting to “stick it to the landlord” (which only lead to legal issues down the road). But it’s so sexy to be a revolutionary, right?
Be Smart
If you can’t pay rent work things out with your landlord who will give you a discount or deferred payments.
Paying Rent or Cooperating With Your Landlord On A Fair Payment Plan Is the Smart Move!
Nova Scotia Landlord PROTECTION MEMBERSHIP
Sunday, October 21st, 2018
With The Challenges Nova Scotia Landlords Are Facing These Days We Have Created A New Level Of Membership
Become A PROTECTION Member And Get Tools and Services To Help You Succeed For A Low One-Time Fee
Includes Access To the Nova Scotia Landlord Forum Filled With Experienced and Successful Landlords!
Experienced and successful Nova Scotia landlords know one of the keys to success is to find good paying tenants. A good tenant will pay the rent on time and treat both the rental property and the landlord with respect. While many people think all landlords are rich the reality is very different.
Nova Scotia And Bad Tenants
Nova Scotia landlords do not have it easy at all! We aren’t big corporations with economies of scale, expensive lawyers on retainer and millions on the bank. We have a lot of challenges trying to run our rental businesses. Not only do we have to face tenants who abuse the system we also have to worry about new changes such as how legal marijuana will impact our rental properties.
Good Tenants
We also know there are lots of good hard-working and honest renters out there. These are people who do treat their landlord and rental with respect on pay on time and respect the lease. These are tenants who desire there to be more high quality affordable housing for rent and don’t want those bad tenants to get landlords to leave the business, leaving less rentals on the market.
Nova Scotia Landlord PROTECTION MEMBERSHIP (All for a low one-time registration fee to cover our costs)
Manny recent posts in the Landlords Private Member Forum have shocked Nova Scotia landlords and made it clear that we face major challenges these days. Landlords are facing big problems from midnight move-outs to tenants
With all these new challenges our Nova Scotia landlord team has come up with PROTECTION Membership to help landlords succeed.
For only an affordable one-time registration fee (no yearly fee) Nova Scotia landlords get access to a ton of amazing tools and services that can’t be beat!
Rental Kit Library
Get all the documents you need to succeed via your own online library you can access 24/7.
Access to the Forums, Including the Private Members Forum (for verified landlords only)
Network with experienced and successful landlords and property manager to you and your rental business succeed. Only verified landlords get access to our private members forum. This means you are networking and getting help from others who ‘have skin in the game’ like you do!
Discounted Credit Checks
Get huge discounts on credit checks.
Tenant Friendly Credit Checks (With RISK SCORES from Transunion)
These are credit checks where the tenants don’t have to give you any of their personal information. Instead it all goes to TRITON who then provides it to you. It makes tenant applicants feel safe and it’s every easy to get them to pay for the credit check (and save you money!)
Criminal Checks
Times are changing and many experienced and successful landlords are making that ‘last criminal check’ on an applicant they want to rent to. And now as member you get a HUGE discount to make sure you ad your property are protected.
Insurance
Get Access to one of the est rental insurance packages in Canada. Also covers student rentals. You also get a big discount as a member
Property Management Software
Get a discount on premium property management software to help you get control of your rental business.
Become a Landlord PROTECTION MEMBER and get the tools and services you need need to succeed! All for a low one-time fee that helps us cover our costs…that’s right ONE TIME FEE!
Nova Scotia Landlords & Tenants Working Together
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
We Invite Nova Scotia Tenants To Join Us In An Important Conversation On How To Improve the Rental Industry
Experienced and successful Nova Scotia landlords know one of the keys to success is to find good paying tenants. A good tenant will pay the rent on time and treat both the rental property and the landlord with respect. While many people think all landlords are rich the reality is very different.
Nova Scotia And Bad Tenants
Nova Scotia landlords do not have it easy at all! We aren’t big corporations with economies of scale, expensive lawyers on retainer and millions on the bank. We have a lot of challenges trying to run our rental businesses. Not only do we have to face tenants who abuse the system we also have to worry about new changes such as how legal marijuana will impact our rental properties.
Good Tenants
We also know there are lots of good hard-working and honest renters out there. These are people who do treat their landlord and rental with respect on pay on time and respect the lease. These are tenants who desire there to be more high quality affordable housing for rent and don’t want those bad tenants to get landlords to leave the business, leaving less rentals on the market.
Good Landlords & Good Tenants, Working Together!
Good Nova Scotia landlords are looking to rent to good tenants and good Saskatchewan tenants want to rent from good landlords. So how about this? Let’s all work together as positive forces of good and improve the Nova Scotia rental industry!
Instead Of Confrontation & Blaming We Want Cooperation And Communication
We are inviting good Nova Scotia tenants to join us in the following ways to help improve our situation:
Share Your Stories and Opinions With Us
Share your experiences renting in Nova Scotia and you can help other tenants, landlords and educate people and play a role in improving the Nova Scotia rental industry.
Become A Tenant Community Leader for the Nova Scotia Tenant Forum
We are looking for 5 experienced Nova Scotia tenants to help run our Tenant forum and make it as helpful as possible for other Nova Scotia tenants to learn from. As Tenant Community Leader who will be able to invite other verified tenants to join our forum to help educate the community. The goal is to create a sophisticated place for tenants to chat with each other.
Provide Us With Your Ideas for Policy Changes
Do you think some things need to change in Nova Scotia? We invite you to share your policy ideas with us.
Nova Scotia Landlords and Tenants in our Nova Scotia Rental Community
Let’s work together in 2018 for our mutual success. Let’s improve the rental industry and play a role in forming new policies. We invite tenants to join our community. If you are interested please email us at tenantexperiences@groupmail.com by January 15, 2018. Make sure you let us know about you and your renting experience and how you want to help (please note only those accepted with receive a reply)
Update on January 15, 2018
Thank you for the overwhelming response of Tenants across Nova Scotia (and the region)! We now have filled the available positions for Nova Scotia (and regional) Tenant Community leaders. Keep watching for our next recruitment drive!.
Nova Scotia Landlords: Find Good Tenants
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 
Investors become landlords because we see a business opportunity.
People need nice places to live in and investing in rental property seems like a great industry to be part of.
You’ve read some people who became landlords and although it wasn’t easy they earned enough profits to consider themselves wealthy.
With their new financial freedom they could help out family members, pay for their kids’ university tuition and even take a trip or two.
Challenges for Nova Scotia Landlords
In past blogs we’ve discussed some of the challenges Nova Scotia landlords face.
One of the biggest challenges is what you face if you rent to bad tenants.
It used to be we thought all the worst tenants were in Ontario.
And they still are, as this Ottawa landlord can attest to.
Landlords all over Canada face the ‘bad tenant’ challenge, even Manitoba landlords face this challenge.
Bad Tenants In Nova Scotia
We wrote before about what happened to small landlord Lee Cowan.
She’s the landlord who rented to a group of tenants and after they moved out (without proper legal notice) she found they had trashed the place including:
– Appliances destroyed
– Basement was flooded and now smells horrible and has damaged the enter unit
– Cabinets have been ruined
– Drywall has been destroyed all over
Lack of Tenants
Another problem landlords in our area face is something that isn’t common in other areas of Canada, even places like Manitoba.
It’s a lack of good tenants.
As a recent CBC News report illustrated landlords can find enough renters to fill their properties.
Some landlords are even offering move theaters and gyms where tenants can work out in their rental buildings.
And get ready for this…some landlords are offering tenants free TVs, yoga, rebates from local dentists and even Apple Ipads if you rent from them.
Landlords in Nova Scotia, PEI and Elsewhere in the Region
Have you found good tenants for your rental properties?
What do you think will happen in 2015?
Discuss this in the Nova Scotia Landlords Forum
