I get an email from my real estate agent today saying that: Tenant 1 is $150 behind because they had to buy school clothes, Tenant 2 is 2 months $900 behind, and Tenant 3 was behind but has paid up the owed $640. 

It would be helpful to have a breakdown of ALL refunds, clothing claim processing and vandalism/damage costs for our communities in the last 5 years, as these are specific points mentioned per CSC's informational website http://www.cscsw.com/feetransparency/.Please let me know before this admin fee gets processed and assessed on our bills.After many delayed responses and "need to check on that and get back to you", I was provided back with the clauses on the feetransparency website.After further requests for specific numbers, I received our commission check on June 16th and discovered the fee had been assessed (with a more than 50% impact reducing revenue!!)

This is my philosophy - firts, pay the rent then food then clothes."

They wanted $5K to PACK THEIR CLOTHES.  

In this area, one month rent is about $3000.You can ask for any reduction you want, otherwise the house will be left a mess on each open house; clothes everywhere, leave the lounge a mess, bras hanging off door knobs, underpants drying in the shower, no washing up done for at least 3 days beforehand (so the sink brimming with dirty plates, cups, etc).

for instance U have a rental at 700 a month in the mid west your criteria is 3X rent.. that's 2100 a month.. pay rent utls etc and that leaves about 250 a week to eat cloth and buy gas etc. so what you end up with is that renter class simply is in trouble if they got laid off temporarily for 2 weeks or 4 weeks.. so the question was not would you give charity.. but would you prefer to not have a vacancy and let them pay the missed month in later months.. thereby keeping landlord from having a vacancy and in the mid west work force housing vacancy will run 2 to 4 months worth of rent..

To have the luxury of not worrying about how we'll afford food, clothes, gas, or other essential items. 

Just get the wash cloth and soap wet. 

And they can wash clothes if you explain that portion to them.

They care more about gas for cooking - oh, and drying clothes - than for heating, in my experience.