I then sent the police night commander a cellphone video of the pot head tenants supply pot to minors..... Let's see what's going to happen next. --47.155.xx.xxx

Ya, but is it tax deductible? --24.152.xxx.xx

Nice job! Similar happened at one of mine. Smoking out the window of duplex next door going into mine. Downstairs tenant went after them with town and also calling absentee owner of building who lives forty minutes away. On humid days skunky smoke filled the big back yard. She is a pit bull and the neighbors had pit bulls with four legs that threw themselves against my fence and caused damage. I had it reinforced which cost several hundred dollars. No gate on their side. LL won't pay for one and the tenants were supposed to because of the dogs but they didn't. Animal control came numerous times. Pits are still there but the tennies bought their own fenced in small area to put the dogs in when they are not in the basement. Neighbors are watching out for the welfare of the dogs in hot weather. Oh and it's a section 8 place. --173.61.xxx.xxx

A good punch in the mouth use to take care of everything ! --24.183.xxx.xxx

RB, you mean give them the John Wayne treatment? --174.240.xxx.x

Absent LL 40 minute's away? More like doesn't care/want to know. --73.230.xxx.xx

MC, if you had paying tenants in a cash flowing building smoking pot in an area where that activity is normalized, would you care if your neighbors tenants were bothered by the smell? --174.240.xxx.x

NE- we once got a 2AM phone call from a T in our multi about "someone smoking pot". SO insisted on going over. I still don't know why. I kept saying "and what are we going t o do?". SO finally realized that they all accused each other of things-spouses included. Told the one who called to call the police next time. Nothing we can do. I am not a drug sniffing person or animal to tell where it came from and what do you want me to do? I don't know if it is from one of them or the house next store. Don't bother me with it. If you feel that strongly, call the non emergency number and let them deal. --73.230.xxx.xx

Exactly MC. Cheaper to tell your tenants to call the landlord or the cops than spend $30,000 to retrofit a solar power jalopy to blow it back at the building. --174.240.xxx.x

Tough call on this. Technically they are not breaking the law, so how do I force something else on them? I only have one smoke free building. MJ is not legal in this state so any complaints are dealt with accordingly. --107.147.xx.xxx

Within my building, that’s an entirely different scenario. --174.240.xxx.x

I wouldnt have done anything,they make it legal then get upset when someone is smoking it. Pay your rent and dont bother me with these little things.If a tenant called me at 2:00 am about someone smoking pot they would be the first one moving --74.77.xx.xx

When no one will help, which is the standard in L.A., I have to step in. --47.155.xx.xxx

I’m glad that I don’t care this much about any of my tenants. Deal with it or move. --172.58.xxx.xxx

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What if the LL lives on the property and it is affecting them? --73.190.xxx.xxx

The landlord/owner of the property next door approves of people doing as they please, including smoking pot. He allows his wife and son to smoke pot too. --47.155.xx.xxx

Sounds like the neighborhood is deteriorating. One house has a bunch of druggies in it and the house next door has this huge shipping container monstrosity sitting on the property lines with duct work encroaching onto the neighbors. Some sort of mixture of Redd Foxx and Jed Clampett --24.152.xxx.xx

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Two extremes. One city won’t do anything about drugs and another city telling you that you can’t even smoke anything in your own home. --174.240.xxx.xx

What no barbeque smoke in the backyard? That would cause a riot here in Texas. Pretty sure having the Government attempting to ban smoking in your own home wouldn't cut it either. Who enforces it, the police? --209.205.xxx.xx

How do they intend to enforce no smoking in an owners home? and imagine thinking they should have the right to tell someone they cant smoke in there own home? --74.77.xx.xx

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Robert J, not to throw your post off course, but I have noticed that you seem to be yourself again and less stressed than you have been lately. I am glad to see that. --73.190.xxx.xxx

As for BBQ - there should be a law, enforced by confiscation that if you are going to BBQ you need to make enough for everyone downwind. It is truly cruel to not share. ;) --47.216.xx.xxx

I have never had a bad neighbor, i cant imagine someone trying to tell me i cant BBQ in my backyard,my current neighbors are welcome to stop by if they smell us BBQing. --74.77.xx.xx

Ken, that’s because you still live in what’s left of America. Kind of like around here when I stop at the store and leave my truck unlocked, windows down and keys in the ignition. --24.152.xxx.xx

What color are these shipping containers? Color is important... Pink? --172.59.xxx.xx

Almost there! --107.147.xx.xxx

ROBERT, Kudos to your solution! There's not enough room between our properties to use your solution. Do you have a solution we can use to keep the neighbors free roaming cats from destroying the wild bunnies that visit us each evening? --64.83.xxx.xxx

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Left wing ideology has fallen off a freaking cliff. Once again, I have to ignore it on principle. --24.152.xxx.xx

The City already issued me a violation for stacking a container on top of another one. So today I will move it to make the wall of metal 40' + 20' + 20' which will be 80 feet long. The property is 156 feet deep. --47.155.xx.xxx

So how much does it cost to bring the crane in again? --24.152.xxx.xx

Robert, when are you just going to sell your houses and walk off into the sunset with millions? you won what is it going to take for you to realize it? if you die what will happen then? chances your wife and kids will sell these places cheap because the city will see there chance to ruin your whole family and wont let up --74.77.xx.xx

Pot, meet kettle. Literally pot I guess --68.56.xxx.xx

David, not trying to dictate anything,just bringing stability to a neighborhood.Do you want to let someone build whatever they want anywhere but not allow them to BBQ if it bothers a neighbor? Probably a good thing that we arent neighbors for both our sake --74.77.xx.xx

I'm just pointing out your hypocrisy --68.56.xxx.xx

Building an unstable shipping container castle in an earthquake zone is a little bit more of an issue than some occasional pot smoke. --24.152.xxx.xx

I agree with you David, I love freedom just as much! That’s why I only care about these rules when they apply to me. And for my benefit. For example, no smoking in my rental properties, because it damages my investment. I don’t care if you smoke in your own home. And as far as smoking out the neighbors, I’m 100% guilty of that. I guarantee you that I have burned more trash from flip houses than I have thrown in dumpsters. Because it works for me. Show me walls? Nope, don’t care about those either. Unless they benefit me. I don’t want a strip club next to my house. I do like going into townships with no zoning laws and doing whatever I want with a house. --174.240.xxx.xxx

*zoning laws, not show me walls --174.240.xxx.xxx

You can prohibit smoking in your rental or mandate that tenants must smoke a joint a day, because that's the beauty of freedom of contract between private parties. --68.56.xxx.xx

Yep I know the difference between all of them. Use them for my benefit when they suit me and ignore them when they don’t. --174.240.xxx.xxx

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Absolutely. I care about my freedom and the freedom of the guy who wants to smoke in his own house. I don’t care about the Karen next door who doesn’t like the smell or the politician who tells the guy he can’t smoke in his own house. --24.152.xxx.xx

I also recall NE that you got pretty upset when I mentioned I now require 2 or 3 leases, you seemed to want tenants to have the freedom to move out whenever they want? --68.56.xxx.xx

As far as your 2 to 3 year leases, you’re the only one who stands to lose greatly during all of that. You getting dirt in there and you were bound, if you can’t find a way to get them out. I don’t think he would be clever enough to use unorthodox message to do so! Because your tenant is going to move whether it’s one week, one month, one year or 10 years. You know that. But you on the other hand is the landlord, you could be in for one wild ride with a three-year lease --24.152.xxx.xx

So NE, I think you're just upset because YOU won't sign a 2 or 3 year lease. But that doesn't change the fact that other people will sign and I can hold them to the contract --68.56.xxx.xx

Imagine being Robert and having a pita tenant who calls you with every little thing they don’t like. Screened well, pays well, but a huge pain in the butt. You’ll want them gone long before 3 years. --24.152.xxx.xx

Sid and others have done a excellent job explaining how to train tenants who , while pay rent and don't damage, are just whiny. I have yet to have a tenant that I wanted to get rid of and wished was on m2m --68.56.xxx.xx

I haven’t had an eviction in years except in April on an inherited tenant. Which I didn’t care if he stayed or left, so he brought it on himself. I typically do 1 year leases. But I do MTM now due to stupid government policy, not potential bad tenants. --24.152.xxx.xx

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Guess you didn’t pay attention to all the victim ll’s here of stupid policy during the scamdemic. PS: all tenants are potentially bad. --24.152.xxx.xx

All tenants are potentially bad, that is true. But M2M won't save you, if the government stops allowing eviction for non payment of rent , they can do the same for no cause eviction --68.56.xxx.xx

Non payment of rent isn’t my concern for not evicting. If the government is stupid enough to try that as a normal rule, I will instantly convert to self helps. What’s there to lose at that point? My concern then was not being able to evict because someone cries C-19. Going forward, my concern is that by just waving a magic wand and having no evictions for whatever crisis they decide to cook up that week. Being in a long term lease is a death sentence vs having a MTM and just getting rid of them because I want them gone. --24.152.xxx.xx

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I have a simple challenge for all LLs , not just NE. Total up costs of turnover for all of your voluntary tenant-initiated moveouts. Now total up costs of your evictions. Which is more? --68.56.xxx.xx

So the next time we have some scamdemic lockdown or some climate crisis moratorium or some housing crisis eviction moratorium, David from Michigan is going to be stuck a lot longer in his three-year lease with a nonpaying tenant, than I am simply ending my month-to-month lease because the agreement is up. --24.152.xxx.xx

Was the eviction moratorium to covering M2M as well as leases? Was it not all encompassing? --73.190.xxx.xxx

6x6, when it originally shut down, all court cases we off the table. Once things reopened, evictions restarted in some areas quicker than others, all depending on those areas varying degrees of Covid tyranny. Didn’t parts on CA and MA just renew their moratoriums for a little longer? Hahaha. Ya, I want a 3 year lease. No thanks. I’ll evict with my MTM because “lease is up” vs struggling to get out a 3 year lease non payer cuz they have the coof. --24.152.xxx.xx

Thank you, NE. --73.190.xxx.xxx

Because we are only talking about 8 foot high containers, a large forklift or two (one on each side) will do nicely. --47.155.xx.xxx

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It's laughable to think any eviction moratorium would make an exception for NE and his M2M leases, but hey whatever little lie you have to tell yourself to sleep better at night --68.56.xxx.xx

That's a good one! It would be funny if some places haven't already banned no-cause evictions --68.56.xxx.xx

Moshe, I don’t care how the data sources may look. I used to, but not anymore. They probably view landlords as suckers who they can steamroll without much effort. Because it’s very true. --24.152.xxx.xx

Bwahahahahahahahahhaha ahahhahahabababha. My goodness just listen to yourself! --68.56.xxx.xx

And luckily I don’t live in those “progressive” areas. --24.152.xxx.xx

But if they do, I’ll handle it the way Robert J is: on my own and in my own way. --24.152.xxx.xx

Right on, NE. --24.183.xxx.xxx

Then it won't matter if it is M2M or 3 year or 2 year lease. Your court will either let you evict or it won't. No need to pontificate on m2m --68.56.xxx.xx

So act accordingly. But most landlords will once again just sit on their hands and wait for big daddy government to tell them how to handle their business. Because a lot landlords are suckers and a lot of landlords are cowards. --24.152.xxx.xx

I guess that’s where I have to give Robert J some credit. Although his stories are nuts, he’s not afraid to give it right back to them in the hostile environment he works in. Good. --24.152.xxx.xx

The only way to avoid that nonsense is to not let those kinds of tenants in your place to start!7 --68.56.xxx.xx

Can't disagree with you there, I want to be like Robert J when I grow up --68.56.xxx.xx

David, there were scamdemic restrictions to varying degrees everywhere except maybe South Dakota. I’m sure Michigan was real bad with that whack job at the helm. They will do this again in the future to landlords. Be prepared. --24.152.xxx.xx

I wouldn't know, I hadn't needed file until spring 2021, and the tenant never even mentioned COVID. He admitted to the judge he owned the rent and we agreed he'd move out in a week in exchange for me keeping the deposit. He left the place broom swept clean. --68.56.xxx.xx

And David, I do not believe the government will be consistent and reliable into the future. I was always skeptical in the past, but after the scamdemic, I have no faith in them anymore. It doesn’t matter who’s in there. Agree, you have to screen very well,. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again and again, you especially have to screen their politics. In my opinion, the style of person (principles, values, etc.) has become is just as important as the qualifications of the person --24.152.xxx.xx

That said, how 'bout a security camera to collect footage pf the illegal pot sales. Seems much more cost effective. --198.168.xx.xxx

The lots are limited by size and yet you take up yard space with these. Why doesn't zoning come after you? --98.237.xxx.xx

Nicole, the same reason that the bad guys don’t just shoot batman. That would ruin the story. --50.219.xxx.xxx

Bizarro World --107.147.xx.xxx

Hey Robert- I've enjoyed your stories over the years. I'm never sure how much to believe. How about posting some pictures of the wall to show everyone you are serious?? --172.90.xxx.xxx

Judges, City Employee, A Supervisor, etc. Many were attorney's. I took one of the letters the City sent me to remove the container and copied it with the other home owners. The City had 50 angry owners go after them too. --47.155.xx.xxx

The 50 people should be angry at you for turning them in. --107.147.xx.xxx

How do you know someone didn't break in and was smoking MJ here? --24.101.xxx.xxx

She gets home and calls my wife saying that someone broke in. Oh, did they steal something? No. Did they trash the place? No. Well what happened? They took the trash out. --107.147.xx.xxx

One tenants son was basting music while getting stoned. So the dad thru the kid out to sober up? The kid went to sleep in his mom's car, a used Lexis. In the morning the car was burned to the ground. The kid fell asleep smoking.....weed. Set the insides on fire. --47.155.xx.xxx

robert, in a world full of cameras your acts of vandalism are going to make you an easy kill. your tales seem tall...i'm with OC Matt...pics please. and post the fork lifts you keep handy for container moving. maybe a video of the two operators coordinating their lifts as they place the boxes. that sounds like some fancy drivin' --75.80.xx.xx

The pot smokers mad a false police report that's now under investigation, about me. I asked the lead detective for a summary of the alligations but he refused to disclose anything. So I ended the conversation. --47.155.xx.xxx

The world needs more Men like RJ, from CA ! --24.183.xxx.xxx