Quiet Move Out... We Hope!

It feels like when it rains it pours. Last year was a fantastic year, 2016 isn’t looking as rosy.

Weather cleared enough to mow for the first time this season. Lawns are full of dog droppings.

A thief broke into one of our duplexes a few nights ago. The tenant’s dog scared them away. Police report, tenants frayed nerves, and a door and door jamb to replace.  Thankful it wasn't worse.

Two tenants are seeking new homes, one larger, one smaller.

And we’re still dealing with our property managers mixed up move in from January. Our PM was proactive about the situation – got a rental agreement, kept on the tenants to get deposit and rent paid, and offered to both split eviction costs and pay for cleaners as needed. But, they got over $2,000 behind on money owed. They were paying about half of monthly rent and no deposit funds.

The tenants are the no good type. Always promising money. Telling plans to get money, like selling a vehicle. Shocked that it wasn’t good enough that they cleaned up the yard, they need to pay too?!? Told the PM that they had been in contact with the owners, a bold face lie.  She asked them to describe us and they calmly described two random people.

I escalated things when no March money came in, I can only sit back and see how the PM does things so long. We met, agreed to offer cash for keys, and to start eviction soon.  I told her I wanted them gone ASAP, even if they did get paid up.  The beauty of a month-to-month agreement.

The tenants laughed in the PM’s face over cash for keys, saying they’d need at least $1,000, not the few hundred offered. Eviction filed the next day. Our first ever, assuming they would dig in their heels and it would drag out. But the next day after that we see a moving truck at the house. Of course no communication to the PM, so currently working through abandonment.

People are so weird.  Hopefully that property will be income producing again soon.