All Forum Posts by: Brett M.

I have found calling myself the property manager instead of the owner makes things a lot easier. I have never lived next to a tenant though so you may have some extra obstacles to jump through there.

I have a 1 year lease that has matured into a month to month contract with two tentants.

One of the tenants has given me the 60 day notice that they will be moving. The other tenant would like to stay on the month to month lease and would still qualify by themselves.

What would be the cleanest way to do this?

I have never dealt with this before but was at first considering just signing a new lease with the 1 tenant that wants to stay but there will be no way for me to do a proper move out inspection with the tenant that plans on staying still moved in with their stuff in the way.

My next option I was considering was just transferring the whole contract to the tenant that wants to stay and making them solely responsible for the contract until  they move out.

Long story shore tenant damaged laminate countertop. I can repair it with a sort of patch system but it will not be exactly the same due to the separate manufacturing of the laminate that is in place and the laminate patch.

Do I have the right as the landlord to have the tenant pay for a whole new countertop or just a repair job that may not quite be back to original? (The countertop was essentially brand new 6 months old and had never been lived in before tenant moved in)

Yes that is pretty much it. It was a brand new countertop before they moved in and I don't want to settle for just a repair if it could possibly lead to compromising the countertop down the road.

No I have not returned it yet. I am in WA state. Their lease just ended 5 days ago and I have 14 days to return the deposit. 

My main question is: Can I only charge them for a repair or a replacement countertop?

The one company I had out told me the hole was too big too repair and that I needed to replace the whole countertop to do it correctly but after doing some googling I have found there may be ways to repair it.

About a year into my tenant living at my rental house they told me the laminate countertop received a burn hole through it about the size of a quarter. The tenant just put duct tape over it so no water could soak into the wood below and kept on using the countertop. I did have the company who orignally put in the countertop come out and give me a bid to fix it. They said the whole countertop would need to get replaced which would cost a lot of money. I told them at the time without getting a price to not come fix it because the tenant was fine just living with the duct tape on the counter. 

Now the tenant has moved out and I went to see what the actual bid price was and they wanted over $900. I was a little shocked how expensive it was. I was figuring a few hundred dollars but after reading the description of tearing up the old one, scribing the laminate up against the backsplash and removing and resetting the sink I guess I could see the price. 

The company told me the hole was too big to repair but I did look into repairing laminate and some things did pop up but not sure how reliable it is.

My question is can I charge to have the whole countertop replaced so the counter is 100% back to normal or do I have to settle for just a repair?

I want to be fair to my tenant but I also don't want to get a repair that doesn't fully fix the hole. I'm starting to think the laminate company just told me the whole thing needed replaced because it is in their best interest to sell me more laminate countertop

Is there ever a instance where it is actually a better deal to do a 30 year and make extra principal payments instead of just a 15 year? 

Besides the flexibility of having the extra money

In this hot economy do you suggest I just let it become a month to month?

My 1 year lease to my tenant is about to expire and they want to stay another year.

Do I need to create a whole new contract or is there some of of just amending the current one for another year?

The only thing that will be change is rent will increase $100 per month over the last contract.

My tenants 1 year lease is up July 31. They want to resign for another year.

What day are we supposed to meet up to sign the new 1 year contract?

I wasn't sure if I'm supposed to wait until August 1st to sign it or what typical protocol was