All Forum Posts by: Eric Mcginn

As long as it doesn't interfere with renting, do paint and floors yourself. Get extra flooring because you'll Mess up a few cuts. Congrats!

Exactly, backyard landscape features will not really effect what you can ask for rent. I see you already have a porch, so there's your outdoor living space. Beyond that, grass is good, although looking at all the sand, grass won't be especially cheap either. 

I mean, you'll be there for a year so if you want a pergola and picnic table for yourself that's one thing, but doesn't add much value for a rental unless it's a vacation rental. 

I would literally just rake it and think of it as a Japanese garden

Mr. Paul is right. This past fall I installed a a patio per the recommendation of one of my tenants in my triplex. I installed it with the tenants and my brothers help for about $1200 or so in materials over a couple days. I thought, I'm such a good landlord, they're gonna love their little patio. Saw it a few months later and I don't think anyone had stepped foot on it, all the sudden they all became too busy to even use the space that they wanted. 

Not a big loss, looks a bit better than before but literally no one has used it, they all already have porches!! 

So yea, grade and grass for the rental, especially if you're digging it up later for sewer you said? 

Lol very true, there are a few hard workers left out there though. I have a 14 year old girl who shovels my driveway lol, she came to me with the offer. 

Start with some neighborhood kids and steel rakes. 

Fix leak asap. Take time fixing other issues. Keep collecting rent. You've made it this far. If you really did finally find a good tenant than you can finally relax for a minute 

I wonder what would be involved with putting a walkway on that roof. Ideally I could install a caged ladder from the 3rd floor window but none of this crap is clear. It's a big old cluster F of confusion. If they really wanted to save lives they'd let me just install a permanent ladder. I mean it's only 2' from being ok. Oy, I have to remember to measure the interior sill height, from the pictures it looks like less than 2' probably 23" lol

Did I mention I'm considering installing a 30" deck under the window to make it less than 20'.

But I would still have to deal with the other side. 

Interesting, so I would still need a secondary egress somehow though.