Apartments and apartment buildings or apartment complexes are income properties and business ventures to landlords everywhere in the world. As is true with any other type of business, landlords need customers to sustain them financially.
Customers in the apartment rental type of businesses are called renters or tenants and they are attracted through a variety of apartment marketing strategies which include but are not limited to apartment rental advertising in the printed media as well as through apartment Internet marketing at the countless websites that provide apartment and house rental advertising services to both side of the equation – the tenants and the landlords.
Because rental apartments are a business and in view of the current weak global economy, most landlords go out of their way to cut costs while at the same time attempting to increase their incomings and preserve the value of their properties.
Children may be viewed as miraculous assets to their families and friends but they are considered to be financial liabilities to landlords for a variety of reasonable, although unfair, reasons:
* Children tend to be noisy and make their properties less desirable to other “more upstanding” tenants.As infants they cry; as toddlers they run around making loud noises; as pubescents (pre-teens) they are prone to fits of vocal anger; and as teenagers they play loud music, throw parties, smoke, drink and talk dirty.
* Children tend to be dirty and so many other tenants may not appreciate the potential stench. Infants produce diapers filled with poop; toddlers play with chalk, crayons and mud; pre-teens toss rubbish; and teens simply don’t bath.
* Children tend to attract more children and soon their properties are swarming with little urchins. As if tolerating tenant children is not bad enough, children and parents of children tend to invite other children for playtime, parties and dates. Read more...
