Tenant Handbook

[Dustin Hawks]

I am in search of and probably should have been using a "tenant handbook" for the last 13 years but I haven't. Does anyone use something like this? FAQ's What to do what not to do. Call me for this Etc. Any help would be truly appreciated

[Bob H.]

This probably is going way overboard, but when my wife and I moved and rented out our former residence, I created a wiki database (similar to Wikipedia) for the house. I used the free https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki software. I created logins for the tenants and added a page for each major component of the house: plumbing, electrical system, appliances, HVAC, etc., along with a contact page and a little fun stuff about visiting neighbors' pets and wildlife.

It gave me a convenient, easily edited place to consolidate information about the house. Of course, setting it up required some technical work, which I didn't mind because I was a software engineer with experience in web development.

When we sold the house, I packaged up the database and gave it to the new buyers. I'm not sure they used it, though. One of them was a computer engineer, but not so familiar with web software.