All Forum Posts by: Emory Clayton

People sign leases stating that they agree to no pet policies all the time, yet, they still bring them in. Come on man...its not rocket science that a Tennent could use it to smoke in the house, even though I have a no smoking policy. 

I have a property which has a whole house fan. Its been great while working in the house with the rehab, however I am concerned with a Tennant taking advantage of this: smoking inside, not opening the windows while running it causing a backdraft from other appliances like the water heater which would cause it not able to vent to the outside properly, and I'm sure there are others. 
Was curious as to what other have done with properties that have whole house fans. 

I was curious as to what everyone uses for flooring in their rental properties? The carpet in my single family has to go due to dog smell in the carpet padding. I tried steam cleaning it twice and had a carpet cleaning company come and state that the smell is coming from the padding and there is nothing they can do. I was thinking luxury vinyl, but wanted to see what everyone else was using. 

This is a C+, B- property. 1970s house. 

Wanting to know what everyone is charging to run background checks for validating tenants. This includes income & asset verification, tenant's credit, criminal, and eviction reports. RentRedi has integration to handle this, but at $50 for the income & asset verification and $40 for the  tenant's credit, criminal, and eviction reports, that seems high to me. Is it expected that a tenant is going to pay $90 for this? I haven't rented in about 7 years, but if I remember correctly, it was $50 at that time. Just looking to see if this is the expectation nowadays or am I way off on having RentRedi handle this for me. 

Thanks for your response Melanie. The general synopsis that I am seeing from posts like yours is:
If I keep the tenants up to date on the troubleshooting process and show that work is being done to resolve the issue, I'll be fine. 

I am a bit of a handy man, and I like to understand how things work. So trying to fix things, appliances included, is not an issue for me. But you hit the nail on the head, sometimes it just isn't worth fixing. Thank you again. 

Yes I was referring to kitchen appliances. The thought came to mind to ask this question because I've had my personal washing machine and dishwasher both have problems about 2 weeks ago, and I have successfully fixed the washer with a $35 part from Amazon (after watching a few youtube videos), and the part for the dishwasher has still to come in. I'm pretty handy so I don't mind looking into something to see if I can fix it my self. 

I only have one single rental home at the moment, so my work flow for how to resolve this is going to be different than some people. I get that. It sounds like you have several units, so in your case, it makes sense to maybe just replace instead of trying to fix. 

Fixing appliances in my home is a bit different too because I'm ok with out a dishwasher or another appliance for some time while I work to resolve the issue, however I won't have that luxury with a rental property. Just thinking out loud. 

Do yall include a clause in your rental contract that states that when an appliance breaks, that you will have it resolved in a certain time frame? Or do you have a clause that states that there is NO SLA for fixing an appliance due to uncontrollable variables? I'm speaking from the perspective of this:

Tennant reports appliance isn't working. You or contractor/handyman come out and diagnose issue and order part. Obviously I don't have control over how long the part takes to get delivered. Tennant complains and wants a new appliance ordered because it has been "X" number of days since they reported the issue.

This is hypothetical. However I think I should have something in my rental agreement to handle this. Thanks as always. 

I didn't even think to ask him. I've used him for several closings as well. Thanks for the response.

I'm looking for Real Estate Attorney recommendations to validate my Lease Agreement, and to also have a point of contact for questions, etc. Thanks!

 Lynn would you mind sharing the Fireplace Addendum you use? I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "...and I think it helps prevent problems when they understand the myriad issues involved in its use." I think there is something to gain from this in explaining that, yes, they may use it, but there is inherit risk with using it.