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Everything A Landlord Needs To Know Before & After Natural Disasters

Natural disasters are unfortunately a reality landlords and renters alike must face, and with recent events across the nation, Mother Nature has left many landlords wondering what their role is both before and after a natural disaster strikes. TurboTenant has compiled everything a landlord needs to know before and after a natural disaster.

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@Jake Thompson That is such an important lesson to learn. Emotions can really fog up business decisions. 

@Chris Masons How do you best find a tenant who will treat your property with more care? I know as someone who has been on the flip side before, being the tenant who does care about where I live, it's always hard to know how to demonstrate that to a landlord.

@Bettina F. It's good you care about your elderly tenants, but that is a tough scenario to be facing.

@Jim D. That makes sense! Sucks about the tenant smoking in the house. I don't understand why someone would want to live in a house they smoke in and don't take care of, even if it's a rental, you'd think there would be pride in the place they live. Thanks for sharing that methodology though. I like the logic of it. 

@Jim D. Thanks for sharing that tactic, I like it. What happened when you raised it to the maximum you could get? Does it just lower the pool of applicants you have to choose from?

Landlording is far from simple, and most everyone on here has their share of crazy stories from bad tenants to property issues, etc. For you guys, what has personally been the hardest part of landlording or your biggest struggle? How do you work to mitigate that struggle?

@Mike Flora I'd check out this information from HUD, it outlines a lot about what service animals are and how housing plays into that: https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?...

According to HUD: An assistance animal is not a pet. It is an animal that works, provides assistance, or performs tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability, or provides emotional support that alleviates one or more identified symptoms or effects of a person's disability. Assistance animals perform many disability-related functions, including but not limited to, guiding individuals who are blind or have low vision, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to sounds, providing protection or rescue assistance, pulling a wheelchair, fetching items, alerting persons to impending seizures, or providing emotional support to persons with disabilities who have a disability-related need for such support. For purposes of reasonable accommodation requests, neither the FHAct nor Section 504 requires an assistance animal to be individually trained or certified. While dogs are the most common type of assistance animal, other animals can also be assistance animals."

Also, I'd talk to an attorney because as you can see in this story: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-... things can go poorly if you lose a lawsuit due to charging pet rent for an assistance animal (this includes emotional support animals).

I'd look into your local regulations too. Best of luck to you!

Have you ever joined Nextdoor.com? It's a great website for finding people in your local area who can do jobs like that.

@Taylor Witt I'll pass on your contact information. His name is Ben Cargile, so if you see an email from him you'll know who he is! Best of luck. :)

@Taylor Witt My boyfriend has worked in storage for a good number of years. He said Sitelink is by far the most intuitive and has excellent customer support. Best of luck! Let me know if you need any other information, he's a wealth of knowledge on the topic.

That doesn't look good!!! Keep us updated. Yikes!