washing machine & dryers - my responsibility or tenants?

[Joseph Davis]

Curious to hear how other people work with their properties.  Do you think it's your responsibility as a landlord to provide items such as a washer & dryer?  Or is it up to the tenants within the unit?  

[William Hochstedler]

Utah law requires that any appliances on the premises at move-in must be maintained in working order by the landlord.  As a result, most landlords in Utah do not provide washers and dryers.

The way around this is to lease up the place without them and offer them to your tenants for a nominal fee on a separate lease.  This sounds great in theory but moving these things twice a year is hardly worth the aggravation.

From what I've found, because of this law, higher end tenants tend to have their own.  And then you have low end tenants who tend to break them.

The secondary result of this is that, like @Ken Musial says, there are a ton of them on Craigslist and KSL for not a lot of money.