All Forum Posts by: Julia J

Hi,

Does anybody get rent payment as a direct deosit from their tenants? Is it a good idea?

Somebody offered to pay their rent as a direct deposit into my account.

Thanks,
Julia

Thanks.

How do you formulate this lease? Do you say it is from month to month (1st to 30th for example) and they sign just once?

Thanks a lot.

Hi,

Does anybody have tenants who rent from month to month?

I might need to do this with a tenant whose lease expired and he still wants to stay for a while but doesn't know exactly how long. He is a good tenant and I'm fine with him staying for how long he needs. He said he would give me one month notice.

Should we sign a lease contract each month?

Thanks

Thank you everybody for your input!!!

Thanks Financexaminer, I will check that out in my state!

Yes, I know exactly what you are saying this is what I was saying too.

Just wondering if I can do anything to fix besides selling it (which I'm considering anyway).

Thanks

But I didn't see any building that has the utilities separate for each apartment...

Thank you, appreciate your advise

Yeah...I think you were pretty clear!!! You are funny!

OK.

How about an apt. in apartment buildings? I remember when we used to rent the utilities (electricity + water) were included.

Because I was thinking about something like that next.

Thanks

Hi Everybody,

I own a small building with 5 units and I pay all the utilities except electricity. The gas bill increased over the winter but doubled for the month of February. I suspect some of the tenants (I had some problems with them before) kept the heat up just to increse the bill.

I didn't have the building last winter so I don't have any data to compare this year's bills with.

I want to tell them but I don't really know how and it is something that can't be proved.

Is there a way to give them a warning (to all units) within the legal limits and also something they would care about? Like raising their rent?

It is very frustrating and they know there is nothing I can do about it. Or I'm being really paranoid which is also scary.

Thank you