All Forum Posts by: Randall Brown

schedule an inspection with the local housing authority office. They will do a basic inspection (windows operable, hot / cold water, heating, stove, smoke detectors, front door needs to lock). Not particularly difficult to pass that inspection.

On the other hand, you never know what their inspector finds to be necessary to repair. A property can pass year after year and then they suddenly ask you to repair something that has been like that all those years.

E.g. I was asked to upgrade a fuse panel (with old melting fuses) to a modern panel with breakers. The old panel had passed the section-8 inspection for the last ~20 years without problem.

your property is in Santa Clara County.  The payment standards can be found via google for "section 8 payment standards santa clara county"

Here is the link for you:

http://www.hacsc.org/section-8-housing-programs/housing-choice-voucher-current-participants/voucher-payment-standard-fmr-utility-allowance/

I had the same thing. Professional tenant, in eviction process. They dodged the unlawful detainer with some bogus claims

At some point they called the FD.. stove/ oven was labelled unsafe by FD

No problem. I removed the unsafe unit.

There was still a microwave and a $20 hotplate for them :-)

By the way, that was a $3k+ Jennair with downdraft that they had somehow managed to short out. We were not able to repair it.

has been postponed to 2018.

Whew! 

I put laminate upstairs.. mistake.. now the downstairs tenant hears every step. Stay with carpet.

just wait with the increase until September

Judgements/ liens will be removed from the FICO formula. 

Will they also be removed from the reports entirely? 

it's always better to  give more notices.

I used to buy properties at trustee sale, they were always occupied by someone (I would not know who)- usually by the previous owners.

Then the "Homeowners Bill of Rights" came and gave tenants (not owner occupants) a 60 day protection, in case the house was sold at such an auction.

So the deadbeats wised up and claimed to be tenants (when in reality they were the previous owners), with a bogus rental contract below market.

So, I would give them a 3-day notice, 30 day notice and 60 day notice.

3 day in case they were the ex-owners. 60 days in case they were tenants.

The tenants think they challenge and quash one of the notices (the 3 day notice, because they are innocent tenants), but the 30 and 60 days are still ticking. That has caused quite some surprised faces! 

~30 cases. Every single one moved within 30 days.

yes , make sure that all officers of the LLC sign both personally and in their function for the LLC. You need to collect the personal SS#s, not just the LLC's tax #.

Doesn't sound like a mistake on your end.

The other landlord was already $200 cheaper.. now he's $400 cheaper? Be glad you are not him. Is it so difficult to fill a vacancy in your market?