Need to enforce tenant to pay trash bill on time.

[Arlene Arricaberri]

Hi this is my first post. Thanks for reading... Im a property manager in the inland empire in Southern California and I have a tenant that does not pay her trash bill on time (trash bill under her name) consistently. How do any of my fellow PM's enforce the tenant to pay on time to avoid the dreaded lien letter from the trash company sent to the owner? Any advice will be highly appreciated. TIA

[Tim Miller]

We had problems with tenants not paying the water/sewer/trash bill as well in a duplex. We simply took over the bill and raised the rents to cover to cover the $300 a quarter bill. It equaled to $50 increase per unit and that solved our problem. We also added to our lease that there is a $300 cap and anything over this will be billed back to the tenants.