I feel as though every social situation where there is something given needs some type of exchange for that something.  If you constantly give give give and never receive eventually you will not want to give any more and may do something to justify all that you have given.  As a landlord I try very hard to ensure that I give back to my tenants, AKA not a slumlord.  I'm constantly fixing and updating items that not only increase the worth of my houses but also please my tenants greatly.  One example recently was cleaning out a storage room in the basement for a tenant of mine so she could move some AC units and a bike down there.  This was something that I needed to do eventually, but not right away.  I also had to replace a cracked window from a built in china cabinet.  The cabinets had been there for a while and people had painted over the hardware a number of times.  So what did I do, I replaced the glass, repainted both of the doors and the cabinet itself, replaced all the hardware and scraped all the paint off of the glass from people doing a half ass job the many times before.  This took me all of 2 hours, the hard wear cost about $5.00 and the paint was already there.  She is now much happier and my cabinets look about 10 times better a win-win in my book.  However the bigger win for me is having rent on time every month and not having to beg.  I gave movie tickets a little while back to everyone because they all paid on time.  This month having my birthday on Halloween, and my love for jack-o-lanterns I purchased 5 pumpkins and handed them out to tenants in the house I live in.  Pumpkins were $5 each (Shaws supermarket) I’m going to keep 2 so it sonly cost me $15 for the pumpkins and made some people very happy.