Rental property maintenance

[Vincent Petrof]

hello all, fairly new here but I do have a question. Recently bought our first rental property and everything has gone good so far with the tenant. Received a call yesterday that the tenant accidentally drove into the garage door and damaged it. They were very apologetic and are going to pay for it. Obviously if I need to hire someone to do it, the whole situation is fairly easy to handle. But I can do a fair share of things myself. My question is if it is something that I can fix how do I charge them? I don't want to just let it slide because I don't want to give them the wrong idea. I am going over there tonight to look at it and am not sure how to handle this. Thanks

[Steve Vaughan]

I would get a bid to fix it.  If I can do it, I will, and give the tenant a discount from the professional bid.  How much of a discount is up to you, but be fair to yourself, too!