All Forum Posts by: Ian S.

Hello, we are considering buying a single-family home in the Vail or Tanque Verde school districts. We don’t see a lot of Airbnb’s  right now, does anyone have any experience? Is this market underserved, or is there no interest as people prefer to be closer to downtown?  In this Market, is the number of rooms the most important thing, or is it amenities and acreage? 
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Thanks for the feedback!  Santa Rosa mandates property managers must pass a course, be available 24/7, etc.  Not something we want to be responsible for so we are looking for a company to manage it for us. 

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Does anyone have a recommendation for a short term vacation rental property manager in the Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) area? I've checked out a few companies but most of them have pretty bad/scary reviews - maybe it's par for the course.  We've done a lot of long term rentals but just dipping our toe in the water for short term rental market.

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Somehow missed this reply. Thank you so much, that's a great idea and we will steer our property manager in that direction. Glad your problem got resolved. 

Hi all! Thanks for all your help above.  Here is the update: We have found the problematic neighbor is a section 8 rental - BUT we can't find out the name of the people who are staying there (and the landlord is uncooperative) so we are unsure how to file a complaint, as the first step in the complaint process seems to be to know the name of the tenant.  Any further suggestions on how to proceed? Our tenant wants to move out and break her lease, but we feel we shouldn't allow this without some sort of penalty. 

We have tenants (a family) in a 3/2 SFH in a C class neighborhood that have been having serious issues with their neighbor. Their neighbor is threatening violence against them, and have gone as far as showing them guns, attempting to break into the home, etc. Police won't do anything because of the quality of the neighborhood (they basically said, defend yourselves, good luck). Fortunately we have another property in another closeby neighborhood that is vacant so we are offering to move the family in there (it's almost the same rent).

What should we do? Do we invest in a monitored alarm system for the property and pay for it ourselves? Do we build a privacy fence around the backyard? Is there any way to appeal to the police to get them to do their job? This is in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Hi. We are considering purchasing a 3/2 SFH for BRRR. Numbers are there but there is a City storm drain behind the property. There is a chain link fence along the property line blocking access but pretty easily climbable. Would this be an issue for tenants in a B+ Property?

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Hi, we’re looking for some advice on how to deal with a tenant who is threatening to sue us over a mold issue in a rental home we own.

The issue first came up in October, whereupon our property manager immediately abated rent and arranged for mold testing to be done.  Although there was no elevated humidity or surface areas affected with mold, several of the air samples came back with very elevated levels.

Almost immediately upon receiving this notice we offered to let them break their lease without penalty. They refused. We later offered to put them up in a hotel while remediation was in process. They refused. The mold remediation is now in process regardless, after having gone through a couple of unacceptable vendors and changing property managers. (And having trouble getting the tenants to allow the work to take place).

The tenant wants us to cover all their medical bills / urgent care visits and we do not think this is a good idea. (We have no way of knowing if they’re really related to anything to do with the house, when they ask us to pay the bills they won’t show them to us and we don’t want to suggest we’re responsible for any other allergy related doctor visits in the future). They are threatening to sue us. Now that our new property manager has explained they’ll have to pay rent once the issue is fixed (imminent) they are now saying they will be out in 30 days (and we would refund the damage deposit if the place is in good shape), but we have no faith they will actually vacate.

Any advice on how we approach this situation? Is this a “cash for keys” situation? Any recommendations for lawyers in the Charlotte, NC area if that is really what we need to do?

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Anyone have any experience with Pergo Oultast+ Applewood? 100% waterproof. From Home Depot.   We're replacing damaged parquet flooring in kitchen and damaged carpet. (from a flood). This is for a rental. 

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For anyone in the future wondering how this worked out, I followed @Thomas S. advice (thank you!!) above and flew out and did the job myself.  I ended up doing a tour of several dumps per day (since there was a paint can limit) but they were very flexible with non-labelled paint.  About 12 hours of manual labor later, the problem was fixed!  Instead of spending $8000, I spent closer to $500 for the truck rental, the airplane ticket (on points!) , and a hotel. And it felt good to get my hands - literally - dirty!

Part of the other crap in the back yard was a shopping cart - very convenient!