Up went the ‘To Let’ board and in trickled prospective tenants, many of them snoopy owners and busybody brokers. In fact, a good tenant-owner relationship is as rare as a good marriage, I’ve come to believe. That was how it was with my first tenant Mr. Vishweswariah, and with Mr. Lakshmeesha, my father’s tenant. Owners living away from their tenants seem to have less trouble with tenants, as I’ve noticed. In addition, in Indian popular culture owners have no ‘bad habits’ — smoking and drinking, in particular — but tenants are rarely so.

Source: The Hindu May 27, 2017 18:39 UTC