All Forum Posts by: Lisa G.

We moved our tenant in today. He pretty much declined the walk through (I still had him sign the checklist).

Our house has been sitting empty for a few months, but everything was in working order (we had been going to the house to check on it weekly, lived in the house for 8 years with no such issues). A few hours after we left the property, he called to say water was leaking from the master bath (on the second floor) onto the first floor through the light fixtures. It seems the toilet was leaking, we asked him to turn the water off from the water supply and it stopped leaking.

We will be meeting a plumber at the house tomorrow to see what is going on, from reading some posts on here, I have to mention he is a larger person, so he may have unseated the toilet (?).

What type of repairs and/or "reinforcement" should I consider, or has anybody had this issue? Should we reinforce the other toilet on the second floor as well?

thank you all for your replies!

We actually compromised, and chose to live in between the two, so we are 50 miles from the property. From reading a few things, this is the maximum someone would want to live from their property, correct?

@Joe Fairless I think for now we are going to see how this whole thing goes. Had a little hiccup the same day our renter moved in...

Hello,

I'm Lulu, a total newbie, kind of got forced into this as the market crashed and we couldn't sell the house for a profit and my SO got transferred to a job 80 miles south of where we were living. Anybody in the area knows how terrible I-5 traffic can be!

Thankfully, I stumbled across this site while searching for info on landlording, there seems to be a really great wealth of information and support here.

Looking for some great tips as I'm trying to read as much as I can and 'learning as I go'. I have been lurking around for a bit, but figured I better jump in.

Any other locals that can give me any tips or suggestions, I greatly appreciate it!