When to bill tenant for repairs

[Marc Izquierdo]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering when people bill their tenants for repairs.  By when I mean do you lump it into the upcoming rent, is it a separate bill, etc?  These repairs are repairs that resulted from tenants negligence or misuse.

Right now I’m lumping it into the next months rent as a bill back which isn’t an issue as the repairs have been 100 bucks or less.  What if a repair is large and is maybe 500+ that the tenant can’t afford in the upcoming month.  I don’t think that billing them in the next rent payment, them not being able to pay it, then giving them notice to pay or vacate sounds right.  I just wanted to get other people’s opinion on how they handle it.

Thanks in advance!

Marc