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Updated over 6 years ago, 03/26/2018
- Residential Real Estate Investor
- Kansas City, MO
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So my tenant's house got shot up...
So we just had a fun situation... we inherited a tenant on a house we bought and after they moved out we fixed it up and rented it out. Well, turns out these previous tenants weren't any good. Someone with a grudge against them came back and shot the house up thinking the old tenants we inherited were still there. (The police told us they were pretty sure this is what had happened as they had had run ins with our inherited tenants before.) Thank God our new tenants weren't home, but they are, not surprisingly, scarred ****less.
We let them out of their lease and I think they are going to move to another house of ours. So that part is fine. It also won't be too much of a hassle to fix up the house. The problem is, how long do I wait to release it? I was thinking we wait a bit before fixing it up, and make it real obvious the house is vacant (with an alarm of course) and then make it real obvious it's for rent (like three signs in the yard or something), so if the shooters come back, they'll know the people they were after are gone. I don't think they'll come back anyways and hopefully the cops will catch them, but I also don't want to put any potential tenants at any risk whatsoever.
I'm curious how the rest of you would approach this? Please let me know your feedback. Thanks!