All Forum Posts by: Katherine Pinkerton

Update.  The smoking dirty tenants are out.  Property manager says place is dirty and very cigarette smelling.  Cleaning crew comes tomorrow.  Property manager has a close friend lined up to stay in my house for several months while her house is remodeled starting August so I know she will make sure my place is very clean and no bad smell for her.  We are so relieved the smoking people are out!  And property manager filed complaint with VRBO and retrieved the security deposit.  Now I will deal with my property manager who needs to tighten up her act.  She knows...  I will use all suggetions made to help with this and keep learning.  Not sure I will keep my place as a rental after this next renter leaves.  It might be time to sell.

Thank you, Nathan!  You are helping me so much.  I wish you lived where my house is so you could manage my house.  Your suggestions are invaluable as I go forward. Cross your fingers the smokers leave today without a problem. Until they are gone and my lock code is changed I am uneasy.  Will be back for the final chapter in my crazy saga... Thank you.  I now know how to find a proper property manager...

Travis Rasmussen.  A lot of mistakes have been made...this was my first ever renter.  I agree my property manager let me down by not being able to deal with problem.  That is why I'm here asking advice to see how not to let this happen again.  I like your advise about not pricing it so reasonably...we did not get our target market at all.  This struggle is stressful.  I have to do monthly rental in my neighborhood.  No weekend or weekly rentals.  I am naive, I suppose to expect decent respectful people.  They are supposed to be out tomorrow.  I have cleaners coming in Monday.  I need to go there to assess my house but am an 8 hour drive and cannot go for a week.   This episode makes me sick and sad, I want to sell my house there now and be done with it.  When I go see my grand kids I'll stay in some one else's nice vacation rental.  This house has been my grandkid house for over a decade and now this...so sour.  I'll report back after Monday when these horrid smokers are out and I hope my cleaners can clean it up.  I am worried the cigarette smell is in everything.  

Thank you, Wayne and Nathan. This has been an enormous learning experience.  Your advice is very helpful.  Thank you both.

Thank you, Wayne and Nathan. This has been an enormous learning experience.  Your advice is very helpful.  Thank you both.

I am brand new in the vacation rental market. I have a very nice property, furnished for short term monthly rentals.  The listing clearly states no smoking several times through out the description.  The tenants have been smoking cigarettes and weed in my nice house.  They have been asked to stop but have not.  My property manager has pictures.  They are slobs and completely disrespecting the property.  We are trying to get them to leave because of the smoking.  The owner of company these men work for is demanding remaining rent back plus security deposit.  I don't want to give security deposit back until I see how badly they treated my house.  I am sick over this.  They are my first renters in a pristine home.  They blatantly keep smoking. How do I get them out.  There are 3 more weeks on the ageement.