All Forum Posts by: Account Closed

I noticed that one of the posts I made in my own discussion thread was silently removed.

I'm curious why there isn't any notification to me that I'm being censored in my own thread.

Who has the power to do this and what accountability is in place?  

How do I know what rule I broke?

That's what I worry about - rent gets to be pretty late and by the time the eviction goes through there is a whole month of lost income and a dirty broken property.  :(  30 day notice is also scary because they have so much time to cause destruction.

 Thanks!  That's the kind of insight I needed.  They made it sound like getting assistance would just be a question of applying.

 You got me.  I was reading all serious like you had a cool tile-master solution.... LOL

As for the original question, you can't blame the tenant for this.  It could happen to anyone and should be considered "wear-and-tear".

My current tenants are separating and one person will remain in the property with the kids, possibly with Section 8 voucher.

I'm not opposed to Section 8, but I think it will require a new lease and I have some concerns.

• rent hasn't increased in 3 years and the market will support 15% increase no problem
• payments haven't been timely for months, probably due to their separation

If I raise rent now, they won't be able to pay and I'll lose them, plus a month's rent in the process, I'm sure.  If I raise rent with the new lease, it may be seen as discrimination or cause other problems with the Section 8 stuff.  If I ask them to leave, I feel like a bad person and lose decent long-term tenants.  If I do nothing, I'll have late rent for a few months and then who knows what might happen.

I wouldn't have thought it was a big deal until I Googled trampoline statistics....guess they are quite dangerous.

More than 1 million people went to emergency departments for trampoline-related injuries between 2002 and 2011, with nearly 300,000 of those injuries involving broken bones, according to a new study.

And these injuries don’t come cheap — the Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics studyshowed that the total emergency department expenses for them was $1 billion, and more than $400 million for fractures specifically.

What you really care about is making sure that they are taking the risk so just create a lease addendum that gives them permission and makes them assume liability.  Everyone wins and you don't feel like a jerk for taking a trampoline away from kids.

Technically, they used Cozy to give you the report and not the other way around so just mention "the credit report you provided using Cozy.co" something, something "your credit score did not meet our minimum requirements".  Once sentence should be enough and email should be good enough as well.

Thanks, this makes me feel better about my attitude in selecting tenants.  Credit score doesn't mean anything compared to just a plain simple complete application and someone who can actually smile and have a conversation for 5 minutes.  Tenant / Landlord is a two-way street so it's definitely important to find tenants who are excited about the property and actually want to live in it as opposed to living just somewhere.