All Forum Posts by: John Patrohay

@Ashish B. I'm sorry to hear that you are going through this. I'm an investor, realtor, property manager and have been so for quite sometime and am myself financially free so I have an idea of what I'm talking about and that is how I will approach this... I will try to say this in as nice a way as possible with the intent to help you so please forgive me if it comes off as blunt but.... reading your post I don't think you have any idea what you are doing! Where to start... 

1) You have a co-signer that you haven't vetted; 2) You offered a re-lease to them while they owed back rent; 3) You decreased your security by leaving tenants off of the new lease; 4) You provide 'excellent' housing services but yet are $500 lower than market (not understanding what problems that brings you); 5) You 'write off' back rent it seems sporadically and as you deem applicable (fair housing issue); 6) You have a Tenant that is 3 months!!! behind rent, which means you don't enforce your Lease or fees. 

Again, I'm sorry to be blunt... but I don't believe you know what you are doing. Management might seem 'easy' but heck anything seems 'easy' if you do not know what you are doing and think it is being done correctly. ALL of these issues seem to be exacerbated by YOU. You don't enforce your lease terms and choose and pick when, where and who they apply to... and then wonder why the Tenant is not following your lease or even worse, is confused as to what is now applicable and what isn't... heck they were 3 months behind on rent and you STILL sent a re-lease option... why wouldn't they think its all good? Why not 4 or 5 or 6 month's behind on rent? 

My recommendation is that you hire a property manager (if one will even take you on with the issues that are now present) and let them manage your unit OR you approach your rentals/tenants with professionalism and start enforcing your terms and conditions. 

Seems like you are getting the short stick

 The property is being managed by a property manager. I doubt seriously the PM even went to the property to look at the stove. When a property is managed by PM any bill that can be passed on to the landlord to avoid a confrontation with the tenant seems to be the normal mode of operation.🥺

( there’s probably a few property managers that don’t do what I described above, but they have never manage properties for me yet. Lol.)