Rental property break in!

[Grayson Lynum]

So it's our first ever BRRRR.

We put 5 weeks of blood sweat cash and tears into this property!

We were so happy to hand it off to a professional property manager, and visions of rent checks, danced in our eyes!

Then the glass repair guy chose not to replace a dangerous broken window because no one had shoveled the driveway.

The same day my property manager arrived to show the property to a potential renter (difficult to rent in January) to find the house “quite cold”.

When she went to check the heat the thermostat had been ripped from the wall. Keep in mind this was the upper Midwest in early February.

Then went in to discern that the offender had not only kicked in the front too for ingress, but had also left a tribute in the toilet.

I joked that had the water been left on he may, in fact, have flushed his tribute.

Thankfully the property manager is a Pro and met with the police then immediately arranged for the handyman to fix the door and thermostat.

The question is, when does it make sense to upgrade the protection for a property?

In this case, it will be a few hundred bucks for a thermostat, front door repair and furnace check. But when does it make sense to install cameras and monitoring?