Re: sickening.


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Posted by David Sherman on Friday, November 12, 2004 at 1:31PM :

In Reply to: Re: sickening. posted by AAA on Friday, November 12, 2004 at 9:12AM :

I'm getting a shorter and shorter fuse for people who jack me around, the older I get. What I've learned is that people who jack you around with excuses or who refuse to communicate NEVER square things up. Guys who have genuinely got themself into a deal they didn't want or who had some real problem come up will at least communicate about it and try to work something out. When they ignore emails weeks after "buying" something on ebay, or they want to me to let them slide on the rent for the second month in a row, they are people with no sense of responsibility or honor who will mooch off of anybody who will let them, and it's time to immediately start turning the screws. A formal letter with some lawyerly-sounding language in it will kick some people into action at little expense. On ebay, start the "unpaid item" process if there's no contact within a week. Once in a while somebody emails me before the auction ends to say that they'll be on vacation and won't be able to contact me until such-and-such date, which is fine with me.

Sometimes it's worth paying deadbeats a little money to make the problem go away quicker too. Business is business, and in business everything translates into money. Better to lose a little money than lock horns with somebody in an ongoing ego struggle just to prove something. My last tenants in my rental house got back in the habit of smoking up the rent money last summer, and I let them slide by paying only half the rent for two months, and they promised to work off the other half doing grunt work for me. At the end of the second month they were still behind and when I asked him when he was planning to do the work he promised, he said he didn't have time and started cussing me out. I told him even though he owed me rent, if he'd get out of the house in three days and clean the place up real well I'd give him his deposit back. I guess that money was looking pretty good to him because it was amazing how fast they got out of there and how clean they got it. If I'd gone the "legal" route I would have had to wait another month, during which I would have gotten no rent, and there would have been no incentive for them to move their junk out and clean the place up.



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