- Joined
- Aug 2, 2021
From the perspective of a small scale landlord, troons trashing the place is a concern, but it's not the first one that comes to mind. (That is what the deposit is for.) Making sure your tenants are good for their rent is of paramount importance though, since the landlord has taxes and usually a mortgage to service on the property. If a tenant can't or won't pay rent it can be a huge squeeze on the LL, and Mass is super tenant-friendly and it can take months for an eviction for nonpayment case to wend its way through the housing court. For many landlords that can be a massive financial squeeze they don't want to deal with, so any indicators that the tenant might default on rent is reason enough to throw out the application.It is also that if you put a lot of red flags in your application that you are mentally unwell landlords will kind of skip to the next applicant.
Everyone has seen pictures of how these people live. No one wants to rent to someone that will probably turn the place into a pest-infested hoarders place.
There is kind of a donut hole in Mass housing - truly poor and broke people, in Mass can get into housing projects, subsidized units in a bigger building (most large developments have to set aside a portion of the units for this), they can get a Section 8 voucher, but troons are in this middle ground where they're too rich to qualify for that kind of state assistance, but they're also too poor to afford a lease at market rate. It doesn't help that they're semi-notorious for wasting their money on bullshit like weed, electrolysis, tattoos, plastic crap, dildos etc. and that some of them would consider those services and items more important than paying the rent. Troons also have a tendency to cut off contact with the people in their lives who might otherwise guarantee the lease, like their parents, a lot of them are underemployed, freelance, or unemployed, so as a class they're pretty undesirable tenants.
There's an underclass of professional tenants in blue states who know how to pull all the strings so that once they're in your house you can't fucking get them out without a court order, and trying to apply for a lease with a made-up name that the tenant acknowledge isn't their real legal name would ring that alarm bell too.Also, if you’re a landlord, you should definitely let your tenants sign a legally-binding contract with whatever made up bullshit name they decided on that day. Try suing Stargazer Princess Mckitty over property damage, that’ll go well.