All Forum Posts by: Jesse Valdez

Quote from @Nathan Gesner:

Quote from @Jesse Valdez:

When operating a business, it pays to know the laws.

In most states, guests staying fewer than 30 days can be removed by police for failure to pay rent or obey the rules. Hotels and motels do it all the time.

 But what process do hotels and motels use for stays longer than 30 days. Do they have to go through eviction processes as well? 

Quote from @Mark Brown:

So many things here. 

Firstly, I think this might actually be a good situation. You're learning about the eviction process, tenant screening (never "word of mouth" again), the power of a lease WHEN not IF a neutral third party needs to be involved, tenant/landlord laws, and managing tenants who don't care about your business the way you do. By the end of this you'll know more than a double-digit percentage of landlords. 

Here is the order I would follow:

1. Go to bard.google.com and ask this LLM for tenant legal codes, articles, sections, and laws for evicting tenants in your city and state. Read those relevant parts and figure out how far in advance you must give eviction notice, how to handle evictions with no lease, etc.

2. Be ready and willing to change locks and give remaining tenants a key

3. Start doing showings for their room so they get the idea that they're evicted

4. After a grace period of 1.5 days give another notice and mention legal action or law enforcement

5. Pack their items, change front door locks and give new locks to other tenants. Call cops if they keep returning.

 Thank you. And yes this will be a huge learning experience. I'm hoping they'll just go at the end of the month. I'm kind of in limbo right now holding off to see what happens. This and having to be in texas on the 27th will make it difficult to deal with. Never ever going off word of mouth again. Either short term rental apps or lease from here on out. Door locks are all coded and changeable right from my cell from anywhere. But I know I can't just lock people out. This will teach me alot. What my question is is what do motel owners do when people book more than 30 days. And decide to stop paying? Do they have to use an eviction process as well? Thank you for the well written and not rude reply. I do appreciate it. And appreciate the input. Thanks. 

Quote from @Bruce Woodruff:

Quote from @Jesse Valdez:

Quote from @Bruce Woodruff:

@Jesse Valdez you really need to get out of the landlord business. Sorry to be blunt, but you were doing everything wrong that you possibly can do. In my opinion you're lucky this is not way worse. Druggies without a lease.....?

Get an attorney and get these losers out then hire a property manager to properly vet any future tenants!

 None of that really answered my question. I'm not getting out. Also thanks for the condescending advice. Really helpful 👌 

Sorry, man....not trying to be condescending. I just have a tendency to tell the truth when I see it. The only question you asked was which eviction process to go with and I guess I didn't answer that directly.....so here it is... I would see an Atty first before doing anything else. That's your process.

Already did that. That's where I was told the text would suffice for written notice. Just wanted to see if anyone on here had any similar experience with short term guys and could give me some first hand advice. And I've learned that's just an excuse for being an Ahole. I've done it too. It doesn't help with teachable moments. Thank for the replies tho. I do appreciate generating attention to the post for guys that might have some advice that isn't the obvious. I know I fcked up. That's besides the point here. 

Quote from @Theresa Harris:

Give them notices to leave.  All of the rooms should have locks on them (and they shouldn't unlock unless the correct code is entered) and if one of them picks a lock to go in a vacant room, that should be automatic lease violation and eviction.  You need to follow through.  Get them out and start with leases and only rent to people that you have screened.  Move into the house for a while (there are spare rooms) and get a better idea of what is going on.

I figured I would just stick with airbnb for now. These are all short term guys. Some come in for a couple weeks some for a couple weeks that turns into months. Most are traveling professionals needing an alternative to a thousand dollar a week hotels. Usually real professional. It worked fine for awhile but I knew something like this would happen eventually. My mistake. Now I learned. 

Quote from @Bruce Woodruff:

@Jesse Valdez you really need to get out of the landlord business. Sorry to be blunt, but you were doing everything wrong that you possibly can do. In my opinion you're lucky this is not way worse. Druggies without a lease.....?

Get an attorney and get these losers out then hire a property manager to properly vet any future tenants!

 None of that really answered my question. I'm not getting out. Also thanks for the condescending advice. Really helpful 👌 

Quote from @John Underwood:

I think it's illegal to have indoor cameras.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.krqe.com/news/national/are-...

 It is not illegal as long as they aren't hidden and aren't in bedrooms or bathrooms...I have two in the common areas. Kitchen and hallway.

Quote from @Michael Baum:

Hey @Jesse Valdez. That is a raw deal, sorry you are going through this.

Do you have signed leases in place for all these folks? Are you renting the spaces through AirBNB or VRBO or only the word of mouth thing?

Any kind of rental agreement?

Are their locks on the rooms that aren't supposed to be accessible?

 No lease agreements. I use airbnb but these guys did not come in off airbnb. They came in from word of mouth from a past tenant. They haven't refused to leave on the first but I'm trying to figure out what to do if they do decide to refuse which for some reason I think they might. They have showed to be some shady individuals. I know the gf is an addict and one of the guys may use as well.  Edit...also yes there is coded locks on all bedroom doors. That remain locked and temporarily unlock for seconds when a code is entered. I know for a fact he entered the room he was paying for at one point through the window. That was before he had switched out of that room to the larger room. 

I've Been renting all four rooms in my house out individually for about 10 months now. Usually no issues. Tenants have come mostly by word of mouth through some local tradesman. Recently I've had 2 guests that were messy and accessed the two rooms that weren't currently rented. I invoiced an extra 25 dollars for part of the cleaning that I needed done extra and it was disregarded. Theyve treat it as if the whole thing is rented to them. I wasn't sure what I was gonna do. That's when I just decided to bill for biweekly cleaning and install hallway cameras to verify the rooms aren't accessed by anyone unauthorized. I felt like they weren't willing to work with me. When I brought up the cleaning fee he threatened to just leave once the end of the month was up and he'd have his gf clean for free which has not happened to this point already.  This was days ago. After the invoice was disregarded I decided I might try just using a rental management company. I guess that was a super long write up for me to just ask the eviction process I should go with? I've already gave them notice by text That I wanted the house vacated by march1st. Does anyone have any insight for the next steps. I plan on being on the road here for work in the next day or two and wanted to try and make sure I have everything covered before I leave. Anyone that can help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 

Quote from @Travis Billingham:

I grew up in Albuquerque and was a Realtor there for 20 years. If I can connect you with an investor friendly broker, let me know 

 Yes sir I could use the help. I have talked with a realtor out here but given my employment situation I they don't seem to be of much help. I've worked oilfield the lastv7 years as a pipeline welder which is kind of a gypsy lifestyle going from place to place and job to jobbwith layoffs in between companies. And right now I'm on a layoff. No employment makes it hard to get approved for alot of loan options. I feel like most realtors see that and automatically don't care to help me find a way. I could use some genuine help on finding a way to make this happen. 

I may have found a property I'd like to invest in but I'm in desperate need of someone to look over it and possibly guide me along the way. Definitely new to real estate and can't help but feel I'm getting in to deep and to quick. But I also could use the place to stay over the next year or so before deciding to rent or sell. If someone with a little more experience could message me and go over what I'm looking at I'd appreciate the help