Tenant installs swimming pool without permission

[Rick Bassett]

I was doing a property drive-by the other day and noticed one of those Wal-Mart variety 3' swimming pools in the backyard of one of our SFR's. I've never had a tenant install a pool before.

After consulting with my insurance guy, I approached the tenant and told him that he had 2 options; 1) Take it down immediately or we would, 2) Provide us proof of $1m in liability on his renters insurance policy.

Our lease is silent on swimming pools specifically but covers all improvements, which this should fall under.

Have any of you had a tenant put a pool up without asking? If so how did you deal with it?

Rick