All Forum Posts by: Kevin Kim

There is one electric pole connected to both a metal building and a manufactured house. We use the metal building for warehouse purposes, and we will soon rent out the other metal building. We use very little electricity in the metal building. However, we do not want the tenant to pay for the electricity that we use.

I contacted Edison and the County to see if we could install an additional electric pole to have a separate meter, but they said it is not allowed to have more than one pole for our property.

I found a sub-meter on Amazon, and I wonder if it is allowed to install one on the electric pole, so our tenant can see how much energy we have used. This way, we can reimburse them for the power we use each month.

Please let me know what the best and/or easiest way to handle this would be.

Thank you.

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Hi,

We have found a really good potential tenant. He has already submitted an application through Zillow, and we have the contact number of his current home manager.

Please let me know if it's still a good idea to ask the potential tenant for a recommendation letter from their current landlord, or if calling the manager would suffice.

By the way, what should we do if the tenant has simply provided a friend’s number, and the friend pretends to be the landlord or property manager, or if he just make fake letter? Are there a way to check? 

Thank you. 

 Thank you!

Hey there,

Showing our house to potential tenants is turning out to be quite the task. We often end up finding out their credit score or income doesn't cut it only after we've shown them around, which honestly feels like a bit of a time sink.

So, I was thinking, whenever someone hits us up on Zillow wanting to check out the place, maybe I could just ask upfront if their credit score is over 600 and if they're pulling in more than $6,000 a month. Do you reckon that's cool to ask, or are there some legal hoops to jump through?

Thank you 

I forgot to ask: Do you know how I can check lien information using the lien document number?

Hello,

Finally, we have found a good candidate tenant—a young married couple with a son and their parent, totaling 5 people.

The Zillow credit check and background check did not reveal any negative information, like  what many have mentioned in this forum.

So, I conducted an AAOA check, and it showed two lien histories from their father:

• Recording date: 06/xx/2019, Amount: $10,xxx, Filing Location: San Bernardino, CA, Document Number: 210xxx
• Recording date: 03/xx/2019, Amount: $30,xxx, Filing Location: San Bernardino, CA, Document Number: 96xxx

I inquired about these, and he said one was due to a car that was totaled in an accident, asserting it wasn’t his fault. He is still making payments, and the matter is currently involved in litigation.

He claimed the $30,xxx lien is a mistake by AAOA.

I attempted to verify this on the San Bernardino county online website, but I couldn’t find any information.

Aside from that, everything else looks good.

They have been renting a house for 12 years until mid-2023 and recently rented another house for less than a year. However, the owner of the new house intends to sell, prompting their interest in renting our property.

They provided letters from their previous two landlords.

Please let me know what you would do in my situation.

Thank you.

Hello,

We have a property which has 2 old manufactured houses which we are going to rent in California. 
We're going to ask tenants to have renter's insurance with liability.

However I couldn't find any insurance company who offer renter's insurance for old manufactured house(pre 1976)

Please let me know if you know any insurance company who offers the renter's insurance for old manufactured houses 

It will be greatly appreciated if you can help me to find. 

Thank you. 

Hello,

We have a property which has 2 old(pre 1976) manufactured houses in San Bernardino county California. We listed a rent on Zillow, and I got an inquiry from prospective tenants if we accept section 8.

I googled and I saw that there are  pros and cons. 
Some of the pros that I like is that they normally stay for many years, guaranteed to get paid, and we can get 20% more rent. 

Now, I have questions.

1. 1. Is a manufactured house which was built 1976 qualified for section 8? 
2. 2. I just wonder how it works at the tenants' side. Do tenants pay some portion of rent or do tenants pay nothing? 
3. 3. Does HUDd pay only rent or does HUD pay utility and renter's insurance too for tenants?
4. 4. Is renter’s insurance mandatory for section 8 tenants? I couldn’t find any insurance company who has renter’s insurance for our old manufactured house. 
5. 5. What’s the most that section 8 will pay? 
6. 6. The prospective tenant already knows how much we are going to rent the unit. Can we ask for more money?
7. 7. There is a storage unit that previous owners built which is connected to the house. And I’m pretty sure that it is not permitted. I heard that there will be Inspection. Do you think we have to remove the unit?
8. 8. I found there is section 202, something similar to section 8.
9. Please share what you think about section 8 and section 202.

it would be appreciated if you can answer some of my questions.

Thank you. 

 Thank you very much for the information that I haven't think about.