All Forum Posts by: Chris G.

Have a small plaza that consists of mainly mom and pop style stores/ tenants. One of the tenants lease ended and has been going m-m for few months now. They're in the process of trying to sell their business. Now if they sell the business it would be the same store in my plaza just a new owner. To me I would want the new owner to do an application mainly to check their person credit and background since this is a smaller mom and pop business. Should the current tenant have the "possible buyer" do an application prior to selling it to them to make sure I accept them? Like if they do the application after they buy the business and they have criminal history and low credit I'm not sure I would want them to sign a lease. The current tenant is acting like they'll sell their business and then have me deal with the new owner application and lease after. Hopefully this makes sense and someone has a better idea on what to require. 

Been managing a student rental property, the tenants have rented for a few years now and are reasonably good tenants. However recently I've been going up to the unit more frequent since some larger repairs are being done. I've noticed a few times there's drug related items laying around like bongs, etc. Other than contacting the tenants and letting them know this isn't allowed, is there anything else I should really do? No I haven't seen any actual drugs or seen them use any just have seen drug related items laying around so I'm questioning if anything should be done or ignore that. 

Maybe it's just me and around this area but it seems like the past few months the only people applying have awful credit and backgrounds like no where close to meeting the requirements, making properties sit way longer then they used too a few months ago. Also been noticing how many more people have been paying late the past year. Of course the economy is a lot worse which has a part to do but still. Anyone else seeing things similar in other areas? 

We have a large sidewalk awning in Micanopy about 62 ft long, 12 ft tall, hangs out from building around 9-10ft. We got approval from city but Alachua county is making us use a licensed general contractor/ builder to replace the awning. Needs to just be rebuilt identical with pressure treated wood and sheet metal. Wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations on who to use, I've reached out to a lot of general contractors, barn builders but they either don't want the job or they over price it a ton. 

We just got a new construction for a rental and it’s crazy how many things the builders cut corners on. Most of this neighborhood has been built within the past year and now at around 150+ homes. For example almost all the trim pieces in doorways are cut too short and there’s a cm gap at the bottom, you can see pencil lines drawn on the tile, paint chips on parts of the way, etc. personally we don’t care since it’s a rental but most that live in this neighborhood own the home so if they did these things on all the homes that’s pretty sad. Guess that’s what happens when they need to build them fast. 

We just took over brand new construction sfh, the neighborhood is pretty must all brand new construction and they're building them fast. However google maps doesn't actually show the address yet and street view just shows vacant lots for almost all the homes (50-100). So my rental listing which is on most of the major websites is messing up. For example zillow has it listed but the pin point is not in the right spot. Not sure the pin point can be moved to the correct spot though since it just shows a vacant lot. I'm assuming this is messing up how many leads I'm getting and making it confusing to those that see the advertisement. Not sure if this can be something I can fix or I need to reach out to google or zillow? Reached out to zillow but gotten no response as of yet, has anyone ran into this issue before? 

Not sure if this is the ideal place to post this question but figured I'd still ask. We have a job at a property that requires a lot of maintenance on an awning that's connected to a building. It's very old so around 70% of the wood would be replaced and most of the sheet metal would be replaced. It would be the same height, width, and appearance just need to replace these to make it safe. The county has told us that they'll only allow a general contractor to pull permits, they won't even allow us to do maintenance without a permit (which we can't get) I've probably called 15 contractors around the area since it's kinda rural and either the job is too small for them so they refuse or they want a ridiculous amount to replace it (our cost would be 1/4 of what their bid is). So we're kinda stuck on what to do and don't really have any options or being forced to pay a high cost just for maintenance. Would there be any reason they'd require that or any suggestions? 

I agree with most of the posts, in our agreement with the owners sometimes if there's an emergency or can't get hold of the owner we have to make that decision on our own. It's kind of hard without knowing the repairs or why they thought it needed to be done. Them sending over bills from early October isn't super rare and might not be their fault. We have a few vendors who take a couple of weeks to send over the bills. I would either make it clear they can't do any more repairs without permission or find a new PM. 

@Nathan Gesner Yes I agree, this was made clear to the owner the first month it happened and every month following. It's just amazing to me that they'd be upset at us for the tenant paying late when they won't consider an eviction at all. 

@John Hernandez thanks for the reply, yes that was the plan.