There’s no hot water!” “My car was hit in your parking lot!” “My neighbors are loud, but I don’t want them to know it is me that is doing the complaining!” “My neighbors walk all night long!” “I fell down your stairs because the stairs are too narrow!” “My toilet won’t flush because I stopped it up with too much toilet paper!” “It’s your fault!” “So what you spent $6,000 on your swimming pool, it still has bugs in it and is unsanitary!” “My light bulb burned out, please come and fix it!” “I can’t pay my rent, It’s all your fault!”

It’s our fault when they can’t pay their rent on time and we charge them a late fee! It’s our fault when their roommate won’t let them come home at night because they have a “friend” over and want to be alone with them!

Do you realize how hard it is to deal with 250 or more residents on a daily basis? Landlords get the brunt of every crisis that goes wrong in their tenant’s life, and I think it’s about time this stops!

The college people come to town and act as if they’re two years old. Instead of acting like a mature adult, which they think they are, they act like spoiled little kids that want their own way no matter what.

Not all college students act like this. But from what I can see the majority of them do. Nobody can understand that we can’t please everybody at the same time.

I’m not saying that all landlords are the greatest and all college students are spoiled little brats. What I am trying to say is there is a give-and-take situation in every relationship.

The landlord cannot take and take all the time without giving something in return and the tenant can’t expect to take and take without giving a little also. If we try to work together we can get a lot more accomplished than trying to scratch each other’s eyes out.

To tenants and landlords alike, let’s try to work together because we all have one thing in common, we all are humans!

Sally Zegar

Landlord

Varsity Square Apartments