When do you do the major renovations like roof/hvac

[Anne M.]

Let's say you have a tenant in your rental but the time comes for replacing the roof. What do you do? Do you have to wait for them to leave and do this "between tenants" or do they suffer through the process and get compensated somehow?

Sorry if this is a stupid question! I don't live in the US and frankly, I don't get the whole roof "thing". Over here, you keep the same roof for decades. You can fix a tile here or there but even that doesn't happen to often. I don't know much about American roofs (sorry! I know it sounds silly!) I just keep hearing people say that the age of the roof is important when you buy a house because you're going to have to replace it sometime. 

[Kyle J.]

We keep roofs for decades too, but when the time comes to replace them there's no reason it can't be done with tenants in the property. I've replaced two entire roofs with tenants in the properties. Not a problem at all and the home is still habitable while the work is going on so no reason to compensate the tenants for anything.