All Forum Posts by: Anthony R.

@Sasha Fukuda When water leaks from above, it will get between the subfloor and the ceiling of the downstairs unit. This will then naturally get into the fixture boxes for ceiling lights and hardwired items. It's happened to me and it's really not a huge concern as long as you let things dry out and test to make sure they still function 

Probably not a popular opinion in this community but I think we'd be better off destroying this entire realtor and mls system. 

Realtors are only driving prices up and they have a mafia like control over the central listing database. 

Count your days Realtors. You live in an increasingly automated world. 

Hey Michael! Welcome to the rental game. Personally I've found all my success with multi unit buildings. The economics are just better. 

If i can offer any advice that stands the test of time, it is, DO NOT COUNT ON APPRECIATION. It will absolutely fail you at some point. 

Instead, cash flow is always king

Nothing I saw in the OP post suggests it's phony to me. Imagine you're a Healthcare worker and you have to write this note without revealing personal sensitive information. It's pretty tuff. The letter I have from the VA is equally as vague.

Instead of assuming she is faking, what's stopping us from assuming maybe someone close to her died and she needs help getting through. The vast majority of people that have service dogs and ESA aren't faking. It's a small subset that have the nerve to abuse it. 

Once again though, being a vigilante here is equally as bad. It's not our jobs as landlords to enforce laws. That's why we go to court when we need to evict people. Our jobs as landlords is to provide a service to our tenants. Both with and without disability 

I'm really shocked at how many people here who are landlords would turn someone away for this, especially when the tenant furnished a doctors note.   

You're in a service industry. Follow the freaking laws.  If someone is exploiting a law, it's not your job to be a vigilantly. Go through the proper channels to get the law fixed if you don't like it. You are absolutely not this person's healthcare provider and in fact, the healthcare provider told you she has it for medical need.  So are you going to deny them and emotional support animal because you feel like they don't disserve it? Is that your medical call to make?  

I have a psychiatric service dog for combat related PTSD and I'm also super athletic, because, you know, exercise makes life better when you're struggling mentally. I can't tell you how much **** I've caught in public, and how embarrassing it was, because someone thought that it'd be a good idea to tell me how I didn't need a service dog, I didn't look disabled, and how I was taking advantage of the system.  

Imagine sitting down to dinner with family or someone you're just meeting for the first time and then having to defend yourself to a restaurant manager on what your mental diagnosis is and why you have a service dog. This wasn't an uncommon occurrence either. It happened so frequently, and was so embarrassing on a regular basis, THAT I STOPPED USING MY SERVICE DOG.   

Tell me how a landlord passing judgement, on someone who has a doctors note, saying that they don't believe they need it, is any different.   

Now I know someone is going to say "Well a service dog is different than an emotional support animal" and the thing is, it's not. Maybe to the government and doctors it's different, but to you, the landlord, the NOT medical professional, it's a medical device that has been prescribed to this person. It's no different than a wheelchair or a pair of crutches in your eyes.  

@John C. yeah that's going to be our strategy if we get forced down this route 

@Anthony Wick yeah I agree that a lot of this is far fetched - I usually ignore these bills but there's a lot of support around this one so I'm curious what will get trimmed 

@Jeffrey Boyce I've analyzed our position and I decided that the moment tenants start skipping out on rent, I'll take all the forbearances I can. If I can take them all, my expenses drop 75% and I can last for something like 6 years on what we have in saving right now lol 

I wouldn't continue to rent to people though. Each tenant that invoked this no rent privilege wouldn't get their lease renewed. I may not be able to evict them, but nothing says I have to provide them free service indefinitely  

@Joe Splitrock I think we should let the free market command itself honestly. If that means that some companies, big and small, fail then so be it. That's rough but if 99% of businesses are in this category, all of us included, then maybe Delta, and United, and American Airlines should be too. It wouldn't be the first time an airline went under.

I don't see the feds rushing to save my rental business which took me 10 years to build. Despite the fact that it has provided affordable, well maintained housing to the people, accounts for a huge portion of my net-worth and would be devastating to my family if lost. 

I don't think the feds give a **** about us. If anything, this crisis has made that abundantly clear. We, as property managers, are on our own when things go sideways. 

The feds turn their back, the banks provide no support, and the people want our blood. 

Instead of canceling rent and sending hundreds of billions of to big corporations, they could provide a small subsidy to all Americans for a few months so that they can pay their rent while this is going on. 

Then the system continues to function and no one gets wrecked. I guess that's too complex of an idea though. 

Well at least I know I'm not the only one concerned. Though, not exactly the response I was hoping for. 

The correct answer was "Com'mon Anthony, don't over react. Rentals will actually produce double rent and everything will be fine" 

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