All Forum Posts by: Maya Torres

@Mark Huneycutt Yep! I hear you. We own in Hampton Roads area of VA. Home of the largest Naval Base. I don't know that I want to own anywhere else!

@Sue K. I respect your opinion but I am going to respectfully disagree. The landlord doesn’t know enough to take advantage of me. Not to mention I’d like to think I know when I’m being taken advantage of and I don’t take people’s crap. I’m just being patient with him because he really doesn’t know any better. He went into investing blind and has no idea what it takes to be a landlord. At the end of the day, he wouldn’t know how to hire a property manager to manage his property. So he has no choice but to do repairs at this point because if I walk then he’s left in the dust. He’s gonna do what I’m suggesting and he already is because he knows I’m not sticking around much longer.

@Satyam Mistry I was thinking about price points not because I want to lower mine but because I feel like tenants are looking for more affordable places at this time in the $800-$1000 realm rather than the $1800 realm.

@Satyam Mistry Thanks so much! Very helpful.

I’m curious to know if anyone has undergone a turnover or has had to place tenants within the last couple of hectic weeks. Please share your experiences. Any difficulties or successes? My husband and I are supposed to be moving out of our single family home in May and we’re gonna have to find a renter. Of course, Rona could postpone this. Please share rent price points too! I think this will help a lot of us out. Thank you!

Just would like to note to everyone racking their brains over the fact that I am unlicensed..I am not a property manager. I am simply looking over his property locally because he is overseas. He is managing. I am the middle man. We are in communication everyday. He makes all the decisions. I go through him. I have explained this to the tenants. I don’t want to get into the property management game. I’m simply doing him a favor. I would do the same thing if I were to go away. Appoint someone that I trust to be ears and eyes locally but I wouldn’t stop managing my own property. Not at this point anyway.

@Joe Splitrock I meant I’m not a property manager. I’m looking after his duplex because he’s overseas but I am in contact with him everyday. I can easily walk away. He can communicate with his tenants from overseas but of course it’s easier having someone local. I’m not concerned at all because technically..I’m just the middle man. The communicator. I don’t collect his rents. They go directly to him. His tenants will contact me if there are any issues and then I contact him and he tells me how to move forward. He’s the property owner. He can choose how he wants to manage his property and if that means he wants to appoint me as point of contact..he can do that.

Just want to thank everyone for their input, minus @Merritt S. I spoke with him and he’s agreed to do the repairs.

@Asakusa Chimpo What are you talking about? Did you read or have any idea why I said Adam was showing compassion? It has nothing to do with a letter.

@Adam Peacock That’s amazing! If I were in the position to do that I definitely would. Good on you! We need some damn compassion in these times. People are too afraid to give it.