All Forum Posts by: Justin Giroux

Thanks for you replies. 

I have a similar question. On move in day should I have the oil tank full and require they fill it at move out or should I leave it as empty as possible?

I'd like to know the best way to deal with heating in a single family home. As a landlord, I get a substantial discount on fuel oil that amounts to $500 per home per year. In multi-families I just include heat with the rent, but how should I go about this in a SFH? I see three options:

Option 1: Have the tenants pay for it in their own name for full price with a local oil company.

Option 2: I put the oil in my name and bill them back.

• The pros of this is that they will save about $40 a month, which means I may be able to charge more in rent or they may stay longer.
• The cons is that is they may not pay me back. I would have a clause in the lease that says that they only get to use this method if the pay me back for the oil within 30 days or they will have to purchase their own oil at full price. I would also charge a larger deposit to protect me from loss.

Option 3: Include heat with the rent.

• I'm not a fan of this because they have no incentive to conserve fuel.

That is a teenager of a tenant?

How about a teenager during some of it?

I am reading the book on Audible and they do not provide a code.What do I do?

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Prices in Central Maine are really high right now too. I've been to auctions and searching the MLS, but "deals" have been hard to find.

I'm using Cozy as my property management software. I'm thinking about using their maintenance feature. I'm wondering if anyone uses this exclusively or if you have a policy for standard vs emergency issues?

I'm considering making my policy to use Cozy for all standard repair issues and call if it is an emergency like a burst pipe.

Has anyone had success using Cozy for emergency repair issues?

Has any work been done by Cozy so tenants can upload driver's licences, pay stubs, ect.?

I have the Handheld Niagara Earth Massage 1.5 gpm Showerhead Chrome at home and that works pretty well. I think I will get a vandal resistant showerhead for the apartments that I'm looking into buying. American Standard has a FloWise 1.5 gpm and Niagara has a Chrome Institutional Vandal Proof Showerhead 1.5 gpm.