Why landlords need Philosophy?

Over the many years of my involvement in the lettings industry there have been many ups and downs caused mostly by government interference but by far the most distressing thing I have seen has been the changes that have occurred in the personality of many landlords due to stress and not understanding just what's gone wrong with their tenancies. Many are pushed into cynicism and mental health issues through the fear of getting it wrong and being penalised. 

Some landlords have dysfunctional and even abusive relationships with the tenants for whom we have taken great pride in providing the best accommodation. 

The question comes up of 'why do such lovely, supportive, collaborative, human beings behave like psychotic, aggressive (sometimes), 'superiority complexed' fools? Most have fallen into this at times and I know that have, in the past, teetered on the brink! It's known as the Human Condition!

I would like to suggest that our condition is the result of bad education, lack of knowledge starting with the schools pushing us to compete, win at all costs, dog eat dog and trying to convince us that this is our 'nature', as human beings - survival of the fittest. I suggest that this has been a lie and that the natural state of humans is to work together and support each other and that the system in which we live encourages this wrong-think which ends up in division between landlord and occupier to the benefit of other negative forces.

How do we handle this? Well I think it's our inner conflict between our real instinct and the way we perceive we have to deal with our tenancies that causes our personal issues.

The cure is to put in place some systems (see the SYSTEMS posts) in our lettings businesses to both keep us safe and also to look like great customer service to our tenants otherwise we will become the servants of the tenants and that's not good for landlords or tenants. Also have access to the knowledge required to deal with the business of lettings and government legislation elegantly.

I plan to bring you access to the systems and links to access the necessary sites to help you. Rent guarantees, referencing, paperwork, finance, templates and an email helpline for individual questions. 

Ok, some of your relationships are not going to survive and many of the tenants' mindsets are fixed in the 'dog eat dog' too, these may not be salvageable but then you will be able to prep up your case and proceed to evict, reset and start with a new philosophy because we can ignore reality but we cannot ignore the consequences if we ignore reality. But, handle the eviction in the knowledge that the tenants behaviour has also been programmed by the bad education that is pushed upon us all and now, knowing the human condition,  we are aware that it is not their or our fault.

But  hey! This is just my opinion and you are free to disagree, in the meantime please browse the other posts to which we will add new content every week .........