Do the way property managers handle the cleaning of a rental affect the attitude of tenants or prospective tenants?
Yes, it does.
How?
One of the worst things about living in a rented property is that tenants have very little control over how the home is run. Yet people, in general, want to have a measure of influence over how the space they work, play or live in is designed, or created.
But this is usually not possible in a rental because though the tenants live in the home, they are not financially responsible for its maintenance. As a result, landlords and property managers find it necessary to limit a tenant’s freedom to take certain actions.
This is because any issues that result from the tenants’ behavior will usually be the landlord’s problem to deal with. It makes sense that the person who will bear the burden for fixing the home should decide what happens in it.
But how does this affect the tenant’s behavior?
Even property managers who are new to the business know that tenants can be insanely hard to please. Because tenants are not responsible for many things in a rental, they come to expect a lot more from those who are. This is why small things mean so much to tenants.
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