All Forum Posts by: Brian Anderson

Hello,

I hired a property manager to list, find tenants and manager the property.  The property manager brought us a person and showed they had 800 credit score.  I selected them and we ended up having to evict them.  They did over $10K in damage as well as missed out of 6 months of rent. 

I have been informed that the tenant may have provided a falsified credit report.  The property manager was paid to vet the tenant.  However, went I went back and looked at the paperwork the application was filled out on March 15th and the credit report was from March 7th.  If that is the case the property manager did not run the persons credit and only provided the falsified credit report that was provided to them.

If this is in fact what happened am I able to go after the property manager for negligence?

@Kyle J. thanks for the info, it is very helpful.  It is a significant amount; $17K lost rent/$10K+ in damages and repairs.

Thanks for responding.  I have $17K in lost rent and $10K+ in damages which is why I want to go after evicted tenant.  Just wondering what others have gone through and success rate.  I am using a law firm to do the collections and have already made an insurance claim.  I am getting some money through insurance.  Tenant still works at the same place on application, so I am thinking I would have a better success rate because of that.  I am not expecting much, but definitely want make sure this is on their credit at least and protect another landlord from this, as the tenant has perfect credit when I rented too her.

I had a tenant stop paying rent in January. I had them evicted, but CA froze all evictions the week before the lock out was supposed to take place. I finally was able to get the tenant out after 5 months of not paying rent. The house was a total mess as well so we are getting it back to a livable state for the next renters.

Is it worth it to go after the previous tenant for the lost rent and small claims court for the damages? I have had some people say it’s not worth it and it will just cost me more money and time, but on the flip side I don’t want to just let this person get away with this and make sure it’s on their credit so it doesn’t happen again.

Thank you for all your comments.  I have a renter with good credit and we did a solid background. Check.  We agreed on a deposit of 1.5 months.  

I have a home in Orange County, CA that I am going to rent out. The had to evict the last tenants and lost out on 5 months of rent do to the evictions being frozen.  I wanted to ask for 2 months security deposit  to help protect against something like this happening again and was wondering what other residential landlords are doing in California given the laws favoring the tenant.