All Forum Posts by: Cristin Andrews

 I sent you a PM

Hi. I'm looking for investor friendly good, reasonably priced contractors to fix a water stain on a wood floor (I do have replacement wood on hand) as well as paint the interior of the house to get it back on the market quickly. My usual guy isn't available. Zip code 77095

Thanks in advance. 

Hi - sorry just seeing this today. I've sent you a PM

 I'm in Houston Harris county and Obie told me they aren't writing landlord policies in Houston anymore. 

I've been using State Auto for my Landlord policy which is due for renewal in January. State Auto sent me a note that they are no longer covering these types of policies but Safeco would be happy to sell me a policy for 5900 a year (previous was 2200). I've been shopping around with brokers and have tried Obie and Steadily and those told me that they have no providers currently writing Landlord Policies in Harris County Houston TX.

Can anyone advise if they have also run into this and if they have found  a solution? If I go with the 5900 policy I will be operating at a loss and I will be forced to sell the house. 

Any other options people can think of?

Thanks in advance. 

 Hi - I would have thought that might be it but the contract with the PM included free replacement if tenant had to be evicted within the year of placing them. I think they were just lazy about it and/or the daughter of the actual PM took care of it and messed it up. She is apparently the one that handled their application and met them face to face - not the PM. But the daughter works for her so not sure if she is also a PM or just training or just an admin

@Jonathan R McLaughlin update is they weren't interested in Cash for keys since they just moved in and the baby was due end November. They have paid rent for past two months on time but I am concerned about possibility of using the place as grow house as they installed a security system (without asking first but called after and claimed they didn't know they were supposed to ask first even though it is in lease until renters mom supposedly told him) and replaced all of the outdoor screens with black solar screens.  I'm managing it myself right now since the PM landscape here is pretty bleak. 

I did find out that they are both working for his dad's family home remodeling company. So that 90K that PM verified he was making through his employer is probably not real. 

Thank you all for the advice. I have terminated the PM and am considering my options now. 

I did go and reference the local criminal records after seeing this report and there were indeed a lot of things pending and some that had been discharged. At a minimum it is a clear sustained pattern of poor decisions. My PM said for criminal background they only screen for felony judgements via a background service. She claims I am being discriminatory. She said they qualified otherwise via credit and jobs.