All Forum Posts by: Alan Craft

I typically paint all the interior walls with an eggshell finish. I am using Kelly Moore “canvas cloth”. Trim and doors are painted with Behr OTS semi-gloss white.

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Quote from @Jian Li:

Hi Everyone. Does anyone have experience about handling 55+ Community Rental? I am not sure buying a property with a particular tenant age restriction would be a good decision or not.

Thanks

I own 3 rentals in a 55+ community and neither my wife nor I are 55.

Depends on the area, but mine have proven to be very good. Stable rent with annual increases, low turnover and long term.

I also have a local management company that allows my tenants to pay in person which is very helpful

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Tree root damage doesn’t happen all of a sudden. It has been causing damage for years and now it is bad. The neighbor should have brought the concerns up to you years ago.

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Sacramento, California

Quote from @Jeff Copeland:

You may be right, but little tiffs like this (with otherwise good tenants) can end up costing you thousands of dollars in vacancy and turnover costs.

A tenant who might otherwise have renewed their lease for two or three years will likely say "no thanks" come renewal time when they get nickel and dimed for things like this. So you end up spending a couple grand on painting and rent-ready repairs, and eating a month of vacancy, over a $99 service call.

Choose your battles wisely.

It also discourages tenants from reporting otherwise important maintenance items ("I'm not reporting this leaking sink drain that's the destroying the kitchen cabinets, they'll just blame it on me and try to charge me for it.").

Finally, it's still quite possible that the oven has an intermittent problem, or a problem that was not accurately diagnosed by the technician (especially if it was a warranty or home warranty service call - they generally avoid making repairs at all costs).

Jeff,

I completely agree to choose what battles to fight and which to just let go.

These tenants from the beginning have always been trying to dictate how things should be done. They seem to want to play by their rules and think by complaining they can get what they want.

They have been decent tenants, because they do pay on time. They have been in the home for a little over two years and just recently renewed.

if the oven has a problem, then I’ll send someone out to repair it. The repair technician was paid for by me, it wasn’t under any warranty or extended home warranty. But if they continue to find nothing wrong with it and I continue to pay for unnecessary service calls, then what?

These tenants will complain if something is broken or leaking. If so, we are always quick to repair or replace the damaged parts.

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Hello,

We have a rental property in Northern California and the tenant reached out a few months ago indicating that the oven wasn't holding temperature. Our property manager reached out to a local appliance company and had the oven checked. The technician stated that it was holding temperature fine.

The management company informed me over text that they would charge the tenant for the service call since there was no problem with the appliance. Fast forward 3 months and the tenant is refusing to pay the invoice and stating that she wants a new stove due to the age of the current one. The current stove is less than 4 years old.

Am I right for asking the tenant to pay for an unnecessary service call?

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All Forum Posts by: Alan Craft

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