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Landlord offers Prize for rent payment
| | Friday, September 05, 2003 @ 08:00 AM EDT
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Contributed by: William Falkiner
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Landlord Offers Prize for Rent Payment
(Associated Press)
GARDNER, Mass. - A landlord, tired of chasing down tenants who do not pay their rent on time, is giving them a little extra incentive to pony up - the chance to win a free vacation.
Douglas Rau, who has more than 100 tenants across central Massachusetts, held a drawing Friday for all tenants who have paid their rent in full.
Resident Pablo Gallero won a four-day, three-night stay for two at a resort in the Bahamas along with $250 in spending money.
"It's pretty bad that you've got to do this to get people to do what they're already supposed to
do on their own accord,"
Rau said. "But it seems like everybody thinks somebody owes them something."
The vacation package cost Rau about $1,000, but that pales in comparison to the approximately $5,000 it can cost to take a tenant to court to get them evicted and to fix the damage a disgruntled tenant can do to an apartment. "They don't sweep up and vacuum on their way out the door, if you know what I mean," he said.
Rau said he will hold similar drawings every month, although the prize may not always be as generous.
The gesture already appears to be working. Although some of Rau's tenants were skeptical of the giveaway and called his office to ask what the catch was, four chronically late tenants quickly paid their rent in full after the drawing was announced in March, he said.
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