All Forum Posts by: Carol H.

Thanks for the reply. She is only willing to do monthly. And she wants me to pay the difference if I want to do more than monthly.

The situation is I also live in the same house, so backyard is considered as common area. And I absolutely feel disguising when I see dog poops in our backyard. 

Just saw another clause in the pet agreement: "Permission concerning this animal may be revoked at anytime lessor's discretion"  I just love this standard format lease :)

But how to do it efficiently? 3 day notice to remove the dog from this house?

I bought a house and rent out a few rooms. One of my roommate/tenant always let her dog poops in the backyard without cleaning after. After I tried to communicate with her, she only agrees to get a monthly scooper service, which is totally unacceptable to me. She is a troublesome tenant and I would like to kick her out if possible, however this is the only first month of her 9 months lease.

In the lease we signed, it does says "It is the tenant's responsibility to clean up and dispose of pet excrement anywhere on the property and on adjacent sidewalks, streets, alleys and neighbors' properties."  However, she is arguing it does not say she has to pick it up every day. :( 

Any advice to deal with this situation without lengthy eviction process? I totally want to kick her out, but I just don't want to go through the painful process.

My HOA has a rental cap, and the waiting list is 4 years long. I bought this condo was meant to live in for a few years, however, with my job change, it does not make sense to live here any more.

My plan is to create a trust and move the condo under the trust, then name the tenant 1% beneficiary. I have a few questions:

1) I heard it takes $1500+ to set up the trust document etc, so at the time I need to change tenant, can I revoke the 1% from the old tenant and grant it to the new tenant without having to create a new trust? (to avoid the $1500+ again and again)

2) In case the tenant does not pay rent, can I easily revoke the 1% from the tenant so he/she won't consider as one of the legal owners of the condo?

3) Any other risk that I did not think of?

Thanks!! And I also heard LLC might works better than a trust, should I try to set up a LLC instead?

I am a part time investor from Seattle, I am interested in buy & hold on rental homes.

My plan is to buy 10 rental homes and retire on them after they are paid off, so I bought 2 :)