All Forum Posts by: Jay Orlauski

I have to agree with Jon , that living next door to your tenants is a bum deal. On one hand , you can keep an eye on your tenants. On the other hand, you can keep an eye on your tenants. in other words, they never go away and you are mixing life styles. Also , if you get to know them too well, you may fall into the trap of being too lenient on late rents and what not, since you start to develop more of a relationship with them. I do my best to avoid my tenants unless it for maintenance purposes. But like Jon says, I am compromising my home, instead of optimizing it for the best rent.

I can say this much though, for the price of the triplex your looking at , I could have bought three of them. Do people really pay $3400/ month to rent someplace? That would be a pretty hard sell here in Fresno, obviously you are somewhere where even considering these numbers must be feasible , it's just hard to imagine. If one tenant is late, you will be paying their rent for them , so you may want to have a few month of mortgage payments set aside.

I am in California and would like to classify my triplex as a senior living project. I was wondering if anyone had any experience in making your rental apartments into a senior living apartments so that you can rent to seniors only and not worry about discrimination of younger people or people with children. I was wondering what paperwork should be filed or if any special changes to the property might be required. Thanks in advance.

of course I let her know that deposit does not count as the rent , but she got short timers disease. In any case, I had another face to face with her. She was moving some more things pout so I approached her and tried to nail down a day when she would be completely out. She would not commit to a day , but admitted that she would definitely not be out by the weekend - she went to on say that I'm bullying her , and I kicker her out at the worse time , and she had no help and was trying to do all on her own etc, etc. I offered to assist her in moving the items out , but she said that she did not want to ask me. I assured her that my offer was legitimate and that i could see she is moving out , but I know she is not sleeping there, and cannot simply use the place for storage cause it's more convenient for her. we agreed that whatever was not out by Friday I would help move into the garage , where she could take a another week or so to get everything completely out,

That night I got a call from another tenant.. she has a truck there and is clearing out the garage. I went over the next day and the apartment was completely empty , except for some empty shoe boxes and a boxspring/mattress. I left her message thanking her for clearing out the place and what would she like to do with this bed?

the garage still has her lock on it so we are cleaning up the apartment this weekend and if she has not returned my calls by monday , well, I will have to get into the garage on my own to store the mattress. Thats about where it stands right now.

yes... unfortunately I will seek the advice of an attorney. Thanks again for all the input.

thanks for the information... she would break the tape.. she is coming to the property to remove personal items each day.. though all her large items are gone. Since she is no longer actually living there - does that constitute 'abandonment?'

Hello, I have a tenant who moved out most of the furniture, including beds , couches etc. tenant has not paid rent in a month - using her 'deposit' she says to cover her last months rent. She has already recieved a 3 day notice to vacate last month. She personally told me that she has found a new place, but said she wont get me the keys till the end of the month. It is now the end of the month. As far as abandonment is concerned - if she told me that she found a new place ( but did not specifically specify that she was moved into it) - is that the same as saying " i will not be back" even if she has left personal possessions such vacume cleaner, coffee pot, several photographs still pinned to the wall and nick knacs about the house. I personally saw her move furniture out of the unit and my neighbors have reported her collecting smaller items and is no longer staying there overnight. It may sound cut and dry to some more experienced here , but I want to be sure to tread lightly and do it correctly - it seems like she has abandoned the place but is using it as convenient storage while she takes her time moving stuff out.

QUESTION: can I change the locks and store her stuff - and take over the property?

I never said that. My only point was ( since he was asking about the stock market) was that $500 is not too little to start with. We all have to start somewhere. As a financial planner , I helped many people get on the road to investing by starting with amounts that small and sometimes even less.

lol.. I thought the same thing too

I have been using Adwords for about two months to sell my mobile app Skrilla FlowCast Pro and couple other apps. One thing I like about it is that I have noticed a correlation between clicks and downloads. One of the great things is that you can make a daily or monthly budget so it will not spend more than you want to. I am still on the fence over whether it is worth it or not, I keep consider cancelling it, but I've ran advertising campaigns in the past ( not Adwords) and know that an effective campaign must be continuous so I am giving it a chance. So far it has paid for itself, but I'm sure that it varies with products or services. It is also quite easy to use once you set it up - plus they help you by showing you what keyword are working , which are not - which keywords are getting clicks etc.

this makes me happy.. I know sometimes I need a little reality slap sans azz smoke