House Rules and Resonable Fines

[Brett Roth]

Hello

      The time has come for me to implement and post "house rules" and put fines in place for stupid things like littering, giving out front door code etc....   My understanding is that house rules in Alaska can be updated and changed at any time for the benefit of the living environment, however I'd like to roll them out in a smart and friendly way that gets tenant buy-in and don't want to have to change them constantly to try and keep up with the infractions......   Anyone have a good example that they can share for C/D class properties?  I have the template from the BP "Book On Rental Property Management" and will use it as a starting point but need some additional language.  Any examples?   I didn't see anything in the fileplace but maybe I used the wrong search terms. 

      For an example of what I'm concerned with :  My tenants are actually really good, but right now I have an issue where a friend of a tenant literally just drops trash out the window!!!   Pretty unbelievable if you ask me.  I'm thinking broad language such as "All refuse shall be kept in a trash receptacle inside the building and disposed of permanently in the dumpster only.......no littering!  Fine for not following this rule is $50 per occurrence".  Hopefully this incentivizes the tenant to police his friend better.   Don't want to reinvent the wheel though...