All Forum Posts by: Anl Gupta

I will not, and will ask for money upfront. Thanks so much

I have had tenants where I have won judgement against them, but haven't pursued collecting, which is big loss to me. Could you please suggest

- what types of business help u collect

- how do you know if someone is collection worth if they fail? Income, bank balance, etc?

Thanks again

Anl

Hi Everyone

I am thinking of getting a lease for someone who is going to pay initially based on a voucher from a state agency. Here is trick, the rent and deposit is not paid until about two weeks into lease. So do I have a good lease if I put a clause that after 2 weeks, lease is contingent upon "getting voucher based funds"  or else tenant can pay and continue.  Or not? Is there anything else I should add to lease?

Thanks for sharing your insights

Anl

Thanks Max. I did give them proper notice over the text. I also informed them to buy AC on due date by text from home depot that I had purchased for them. 

In court are these considered official notifications, meaning in court? I supposed I have a text to prove or they have to be done by certified letter every time, since you know how impossible that is when you have multiple tenants.

I also came across this excerpt from a website for AZ landlord guidance - quote "

• Breach of landlord’s obligations

The landlord failed to remedy certain hazardous conditions or failed to provide a residence fit for habitation such as running water, heat, air conditioning, plumbing and sanitation. The tenant must have given written notice to the landlord to remedy the condition within 10-days or the tenant can vacate the apartment and force the landlord to pay for the tenant’s new rental costs and other damages in excess of the rent usually paid to the landlord until the condition is fixed. A tenant can perform self-repairs if the defect is under $300 or one-half of the monthly rent, whichever is higher, and deduct the cost from the rent."

Thanks again for your opinion.

Matt, thanks for your response.

My lease says this also: "Tenant shall not make any alterations or improvements to the Premises without Landlord's prior written consent."

In my AC clause, I don't say, Tenant go ahead and install. I say - I will pay for install to tenant.

Does that cover me or not in your opinion? 

Thanks

Anl

Hello Folks

Thanks so much for such a great forum. I had a question and wanted to seek your opinion

1) I put in a clause in lease that says I will put in new AC (window/internal) by a certain date. A weekend before that I contacted tenant and said my handyman wants to come (24 hr note) and that he wants to look at existing AC (central AC) as a last measure of feasibility check before I get new one. Tenant never let me in and said child is sick and may get affected if someone looks at AC and she has to visit dr etc. 3 days passed by and I touched base again and asked what happened. Tenant mentioned  they are at work.

So as my date was approaching, I asked if I could do on weekend, which is a day or so later, and they started saying it is past date. and when I approached with technician to install, they didn't let me install it, since I was 2 days late. This is when I also offered that in the due date, go ahead and pickup an AC from a new Store. So my question is - don't I have valid grounds for delays, since the tenant delayed me for coming in?

2) Secondly, my clause says AC would be installed or a certain dollar amount will be given for install to tenant. Now they are saying they would just not pay rent and take it off and have it installed. Well, my money was to go towards an install to tenant and they haven't produced a receipt and being that I am landlord, I want to make sure it is installed per requirements of building.

3) On top of this tenant's been cursing me and threatening me to leave property, which I believe should be evict able as being unlawful.

Please advise and I really appreciate your opinion.

Thanks so much

Anl

Thanks all, you guys are awesome. 

Luckily, it was part of the payment that got rejected, I did ask for cash / money order on rest of stuff

But I appreciate your advice very much

Hi

When I do an eviction, I have to shell out eviction attorney fees, which zeroes out any deposit you may have and tenant ends up staying for another month, by the time the court date comes through - usually 3-4 weeks (notice, wait for 5 days, filing by attorney and them court date) .

I don't think that there is anyway to get the tenant out quicker or have them pay for it, without really going through a separate attorney case - where they do a trace and then hold the tenant liable. If there is, please enlighten.

Thanks for your insights

AG

Hi

When I signed the lease with a tenant in Arizona, I got signatures, but I was to turn him a copy after I get his payment. 

On doing the deposit, the bank rejected one of his checks. So I didn't receive the amount that he signed for on the lease. In this case, is the lease valid?

One if lessee's has since gone to jail. So assuming that it is invalid lease, I am thinking that I need to call police and report trespassing or do I need to go through eviction?

Thanks so much for your insights and experience

AG

H, thanks for responding. I didn't know these eviction and tenant issues could be dealt in small claims court

- Ajay

Hi

I did proper 5 day note written by certified mail for partial payment rent rejection and now a trial date is set since the tenant came to eviction court.

Could someone share how it is to be in Trial and specifically in AZ? Can it be drawn out and how likely it is? The tenant defended on "Check for partial rent not received" (which I sent by certified mail and they never picked up, so I got back) and some pest issues (which I have proof of getting pest control done a few months back )

Also, the tenant never notified me for any of these in written way, Also, very sarcastic, rebuked several people on property including not paying rent on time.

Are there tactics that tenants employ in such situations or get a state sponsored (no cost to them) type of attorneys to stall the process or draw it out?

Thanks

Ajay