All Forum Posts by: Heather Rodden

I gave my tenant a 30 day notice in the beginning of May and gave her until June 30th. She is asking for an extension. I told her no. And now she said she can’t move until the 4th. (Plus has called me a lot of not nice names 🙄). What do I do. I don’t know 100% I can trust her to be moved out on the 4th. She hasn’t been very pleasant to deal with.

She is on a month to month lease, and I gave her the 30 day notice for multiple late payments and lapses in insurance. Plus her daughter posted a picture on fb of her room w a bong in the background.

I have the opportunity to buy a SFH from

A private seller. The home is updated 800 sq foot w a 2 car garage for $45K (asking price). The owner has a claim for mine subsidence (I believe it was a $25K pay out), and I believe it the subsidence continues it is another $10-20K pay out. I have no experience with subsidence. She paid $55K for the property in 2013. I can rent this property for around $650/month in this area. Good area. Opinions?

@Marcia Maynard I have done that, I wasn’t going to continue to rent to her, but gave her another chance. Since then she has been delinquent on her insure I believe 2-3 times, and rent has gone back to being late every month. I’ve tried to be very understanding, but was struggling with when is enough, enough? She keeps the property nice, but it seems every month I have to contact her for some reason or another.

@Jason DiClemente thank you!

@Marcia Maynard thank you!

@Jason DiClemente yes it is in the lease, and she had a lapse on it before. She is not upfront and tries to hide when she doesn’t pay, or avoids me. Honestly I should have got rid of her long ago. So yes I want to get rid of her. She is always late with rent as well.

@Ned Carey yes we require it. Especially because she has pets. And I told her when signing the lease that it is a requirement that we do not sway on.

I have a tenant that did not pay for her insurance and cannot until late next week. She is on a month to month lease. I live in Illinois. Just checking what your process would be. I believe I give her a 10 day notice, and I’m going to give her non renewal of lease or I guess a 30 day notice. First timer here, any advise?

The village we have rentals in want to create an ordinance making the landlord responsible for the tenant’s actions. From one of the council members: “For those of you that read the article in the paper. Village to seek solution for unpaid fines. This will be further discussed at the next committee of the whole meeting. But I will give you my take on this. We hear all the time why don't you do something about this or that. Why aren't the police doing something about ordinance violations ? Well they are they write citations/fines and some pay some don't some fix the issue some don't. For those that don't the village then incures even more expense to take legal action on these people. By the time it goes through the process a $250 fine will cost the village two to three times that. So we need to find another cost effective solution to this problem that will get the issues fixed. The largest issues we have with ordinance violations are primarily rental property and most are non-resident owned. I think that all the water bills need to be in the property owners name and they can include the water in there rent or what ever they choose to do. Then when there is a ordinance violation written to the occupant they will be given 14 days to fix the issue and pay the fine. If not brought into compliance by that time then the owner of that property should be given the same ordinance violation ticket and 14 days to fix the issue and have all fines paid if not then the water to that property should be shut off until it is in compliance with the ordinance and all fines are paid. This is my thoughts on this issue Nothing has been decided on and is up for discussion at next meeting.” What are your feelings on this? What would your argument be at the meeting?

@Corina Eufinger I even have “kitchen appliance, including small kitchen appliances should only be used in the kitchen” Aka...you cannot grill in your living room So you don’t miss your favorite show