Has anyone watched "Renters" on Netflix?

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I just discovered this show tonight and watched the first couple episodes. It's a "reality" show from New Zealand and follows multiple property managers as they inspect properties and deal with tenant problems.

They haven't shown anything far-fetched yet. In fact, I've had worse situations than anything they've shown so far. It's interesting that some of their problems seem to be self-inflicted. Examples:

1. PM notices a fire pit in the back yard. She says, "I told them to stop that." Apparently she never followed up because they continued to burn trash, put holes in the wall, break doors, and more.

2. PM inspects a house after tenant moves out. This was not an eviction; the tenant left at the end of their lease. Near the end of the inspection the PM mentions that all the living room windows were replaced because "she smashed them" and the glass stove-top was replaced because "she smashed it." Why did they replace the windows and the stove top but never evict the tenant? And why is the PM surprised that she left the house a mess after breaking multiple windows and a stove top in less than one year?

The show (and personalities) are somewhat bland but it's still entertaining.

James Wise · Answer

Wow! Imagine if those knuckleheads applied themselves to simply getting a job. They work so hard to avoid working. Usually working is just plain easier.

James Wise · Answer

PM found a fire pit? Jeez this sounds like a freakin snooze fest!!!

Last week at Holton-Wise the following happened.

• Dead body carried out of an apartment building. The kid moving into the building that day found it to be kinda strange, lol.

• Police called to a duplex due to tenants fighting over parking.

• 10 Tenants evicted for non payment of last months rent.

• Owner of a vacant home in escrow instructed to turn on the utilities for an inspection. Owner turned on the water but not the heat. Water pipe burst. Causing several inches of water to flood the home, killing the deal.

• & then this amazing gem on Friday

Kyle Elmer · Answer

We've been asked to be on the show numerous times and flatly refused as it is a pure sensationalism of what actually happens here. I bet there are hundreds of hours of footage that are not 'TV' worthy for the editors. I would hope that it would be a complete waste of my time to be on when they have asked, as those kinds of events I could count on one hand that have happened to us in 11yrs so they would trail around behind us for days and then cut it all out of the edit!

That is why it is often the same PM's that are featured on it all the time. They are the ones that feel the 15mins of fame is still worth an "any exposure is good exposure' type of marketing for them and so go with the flow of that type of editorial.

Dean Letfus · Answer

@Nathan G., yes you're right it is the way it's painted but it's not reality. I know property management companies with 2000 doors to manage who go 10 years without a single house being trashed.

It just practically never happens. A lot of that programme is in what you would consider a slum area.  Still it's entertaining!

Nathan Gesner · Answer

@Dean Letfus that may be your personal experience but it's not what's depicted on the show.

I manage 300+ rentals and get a really big mess once a year, probably less. Every episode has shown multiple disaster homes and they're on Season 6.

Dean Letfus · Answer

@Nathan G., we don't get the damage in NZ that you Americans do. When I first started investing in the USA I could not believe the state of many properties. Getting a hole in the sheetrock in New Zealand is a big deal :-).

Thad McNair · Answer

@Josh C.

What part of town was your "Ocean's 11" event?

Has anyone watched "Renters" on Netflix?

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