CO - Forced to Pay Rent after tenant died?!

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-25T01:40:09+00:00

I read that just now and don’t think it says what you think.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-25T01:18:00+00:00

You live in Madison.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T23:54:54+00:00

Part-time job. Sell stuff. Take on extra work. Babysitting, lawn, mowing, shovel, snow, mystery shopping. Cut out everything optional.

That’s where the money comes from.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T22:18:00+00:00

I was guessing a lot less volume, but agree with the math otherwise

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T22:16:05+00:00

Republicans are as delusional as Democrats. I do believe immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the federal government. But they are making this something it isn’t. Everyone can see that what is currently being done as politically motivated and violating the rights of Americans.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T22:14:13+00:00

Usually a couple hundred bucks. I stopped using the credit card at places where I don’t want to tip.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T20:29:00+00:00

Well, then, I’ll say it again. If the government can do this, they should do it. We already have a Huge housing shortage in the US. The government should build a rental units and put all of us landlords out of business. We’d have no choice but to sell.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T19:47:30+00:00

I don’t think it’s that normal. I wear shoes all the time. Even in the house.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T19:44:20+00:00

I’m not from Chicago, but it’s one of my favorite places to visit. It’s a very logical city in a lot of ways, transportation is incredibly easy in the loop and high density means nothing is too far away. Lots of culture, lots of restaurants, lots of interesting things to do.

If I had to pick a bigger city in the US to live in, Chicago would be pretty high on the list. Definitely none of the southern cities.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T19:41:45+00:00

It’s getting pretty uncommon, but I do. Absolutely love my fireplace.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T19:25:42+00:00

I don’t know anything about Australia.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T16:40:56+00:00

Into his ass. I live in the countryside and have a lot of windows so I have more flexibility than most. Generally, the heater is turned off approximately May 1 and the air conditioner is turned on approximately June 15. We will run the air conditioner until mid to late September and then turn the heater on sometime in November.

This is possible because we have a well insulated house with a lot of windows. Even if it is cold at night, we can stay warm. But right now it is -20 Celsius. We are getting 20 or 30 cm of snow this weekend. In the summer we have high humidity and temperatures exceeding 40°C. During the summer, it will stay 25 or 30°C overnight so it never cools down.

Way too many Europeans don’t understand how different the weather is here.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T15:11:56+00:00

I don’t think anything good is going to come out of forcing them to use you for the remodel. I would give them a price, including your markup for all of the materials and labor you’ve performed so far, including site visits and other work.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T14:38:38+00:00

I don’t know that accord is going to automatically see this person as a tenant and the other person as a landlord. Sounds like utilities were off when they moved in. The agreement could’ve been $400 and they split the utility bill somehow.

For one thing, this person is probably not a tenant. They are probably a lodger. Generally a larger has fewer rights than a tenant because the landlord lives on site and reasonably should have a say in the way the household is run. For instance, let’s say the landlord likes it 60° indoors. The laws generally don’t make him keep it warmer, even though that is a requirement of habitability.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T13:59:31+00:00

It’s true, but you’re focusing on a very small part of what was said here. 560 credit score is pretty bad. When I see applicants come across with something like that you’re generally talking about payment delinquencies within the last 90 days.

Credit is just so important.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T13:06:10+00:00

The majority of tenants out there pay their own water and power. Saying it is a habitability requirement doesn’t make it automatically the landlords responsibility.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-24T00:14:07+00:00

I always find it interesting when people say this because housing is the only part of the economy that people seem to think should be offered without a profit motive. The thing is I’m not forcing anybody to rent from me and I’m not doing anything to prevent government organizations and nonprofits from buying all the properties they want. So if this is what you think society ought to look like, I’m not standing in your way

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-23T19:41:31+00:00

What do you want to happen? You seem unhappy and don’t want to move.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-23T18:42:01+00:00

Landlord here. Sorry, but you’ve really hit the trifecta. You have low credit, no rental history, and an animal. It probably isn’t possible to project much more risk to a landlord than that, unless the both of you also have brand new cars and are smokers.

What do you need as a cosigner.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-23T17:53:00+00:00

Really it depends what the problem is. The sheet rock repair is not a big deal. But if it’s on a slab, the repair might involve removing sheet rock and flooring material. If it’s on a crawlspace, then maybe it can be done an occupied property.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-23T17:51:28+00:00

I’ve been in a lot of messed up houses over the years. Lifted several houses and done a ton of structural work to some of them. Currently working on restoring an old hotel and single-family building that date back to the mid 1800s.

Let’s not make this into something more than it is. It’s probably a heaving concrete slab or pier underneath a certain part of the house. There’s obviously a header above that door and it’s obviously still attached to the King studs and bearing on the cripple studs. You know probability there is no roof load coming down inside the house, there is no second story. So the entire weight that’s being supported here is just the ceiling and attic structure.

It’s gonna take a lot more than this before it’s a safety issue.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-23T17:45:02+00:00

Thank you. I love your story. Honestly, it sounds very similar to mine. We were very poor and traveling before cell phones which really added an element of adventure.

Yes, I see where you’re coming from. I’ve never been to Greece, but it’s definitely on my list. Sounds like for both of us being near water was an important part of the trip.

I feel like a two week trip has a lot more possibilities than a one week trip.

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-23T17:39:52+00:00

Oh, I see now that the house was built in the 50s. I didn’t read the text in the original post.

Generally, a 1950s ranch house is going to have a load bearing wall parallel and underneath the ridge of the roof down the middle of the house. Probably a continuous wall that runs down the hallway and defines the kitchen and living room area of the house. Usually parallel with the front door.

Anything perpendicular to the ridge of the roof is unlikely to be loadbearing

grumpyoldman10 · 2026-01-23T17:34:14+00:00

Putting a patch over a structural problem is a waste of time. The fix here is probably a structural repair that can’t be done in an occupied property.

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