An Ideal Tenant

Written By: Sumita Roy

Most of the Indians who own decent flats prefer to rent it to families. Why is that? Well, if I am an owner of a moderate apartment I would have it in my primary interest that my property is well taken care of, the rents are duly paid on time and that I do not receive complaints from neighbors. This can only be expected from a well organized and decent family.

But in a metropolis, there is a vast majority of unmarried people who come to realize their dreams. They need a roof on top and so form a bulk of population ready to be taken in as tenants. But whom would you prefer- a male or a female. Well, that takes us to the age old discussion about the battle of the sexes.

If you take up a female as your tenant you are assured of least amount of noise in the house and almost no complaints from neighbors. Women do throw parties and have fun in their homes but they know the limitations, most of them come home within time and since they are shyer of the sex, tend to pay their bills on time. Proper treatment of your property is assured by her habitation as most of the women have a caring and preserving nature. And more importantly most of them will not be Helen ‘Hel’ Remus of The Capture of the Green River Killer over whom you will have to fret.

But men tenants are easier to find. They occupy a major share in the would-be tenant area. With their expertise in changing lights, finding plumbing solutions and being of help in more ways than one they too seem to be a good choice. But with them you have to adjust with the loud noise that they play as a feed of their ultra musical minds; the noise they may, or well are most likely to, create while partying with friends, quarreling with neighbors and fighting them off, after which you may receive a complaint on the next day. Your property may become the epitome of un-cleanliness and junk spot with natural organisms like cockroaches, mosquitoes, lizards and many more insects finding their blissful harbor. 

But with women you cannot have the complacency of fixing electrical and plumbing discrepancies every time they occur. Even with a cockroach entering her heavenly abode you will have to run to her rescue or see her world falling apart with a background of screams and banters flowing in the air.

Thus it is a pretty easy choice between male or female, whom do you want to be your ideal tenant? Personally, I think a robot would be the best option that would do all the work without a hitch and make electronic payments on time.