All Forum Posts by: Ruby Trinh

Thank you everybody for your inputs. Unfortunately, the tenant did not want to move out early, insisted on staying until the last day of the lease but did not respond to me to confirm paying me this Friday as he said before. 

It is probably time for me post the 5 - day notice. My question is I dont want confront with the tenant, so can I just post it on his door? Or Do I have to attempt to deliver in person first. I am in Oklahoma.

No delivery through texting and email even though they confirmed they receive the notice here right? 

Thank you for your help. 

Ruby

they were late but eventually catch up with their rent. I am currently have more security deposit than the rent they owe me. I am doing it as a nice gesture to avoid the headache and them destroying the property etc… just dont know if it is stupid. 

PM is no longer an option to me. I will just manage it on my own and will learn everything I need to. 

Hi,

I am looking for your inputs. I have this lease that expires 2/28/2022. The tenants are late since the beginning and currently still owe me more than half of January rent. They broke up and I have chased rent from both of them! Since there is only one month left, I am thinking about terminating the lease early for them so they can move out. They will only need to pay me up to the day they are still in the house, not the entire of February. I hope to just get the house back and rent to somebody better, in peace! 

I wonder if there is anything I need to concern doing this? Sure, I will lose some February rent but I assume I can re-rent earlier and it will be a stress-release for me. 

Thank you,

Ruby

@Jeff Copeland It looks like they do not have the SSN and should not provide to me. But I was able to find a standard form for tenant to fill out with other info including DL. Thank you for your help! 

@Nathan Gesner Thank you. I found a standard form and so far one tenant agreed to fill out for me. :) 

@Nathan Gesner Thank you for the reminder to puck back on the tenant application. Yes my PMC originally did not want to provide me with the tenant's application but I insisted and they do now. However, the SSN was marked out. They also lost tenant applications' on some of my long-term tenants, since they changed software. Do you mind if I ask for your advice? I am allowed to ask for the following info, aren't I? In case they do not pay, I can send them to collection and I was thinking I need their income info so see make decision when renewal time comes. Do I miss out anything else? Thank you. 

1. SSN

2. Work info

3. Income info

@Jeff Copeland: Do you mind if I ask what information you need to send non-paying tenant to collection? I am sure you will need SSN but is there anything else?

I am taking back my properties from my PMC and they said they no longer have the tenant application to provide me. So far they have only provided me with name, phone, email and that is it. No SSN, no emergency address, no work address. Can I request them? 

Thank you everybody for the inputs. Now I have a better understanding and will set better expectation for things like this. You probably can tell this is the first time I have tenant not paying :(. I plan to make make a call or two next week and then will just pass it on to collection to make sure she gets a ding for not paying. 

@Jeff Copeland Thank you for sharing the video. Those videos on the website will come handy as I am taking properties back from PM and learn to manage them myself. 

@Nathan Gesner Thank you for your inputs. I have read a few of your responses on the forum and they are all very informative. Appreciate you passing the info and teaching newbies like us. 

@Melanie Thomas yes it is helpful. That is what I was looking for. 

Hi everybody,

I have a tenant who already moved out in peace but she owes me almost one month rent (even after security deposit). The property manager sent the tenant her final bill about 3 weeks ago and of course she did not make any payment. Their process is after 30 days without payment, the PM will send the bill to collection. However, they do not make any attempt to call or talk to the tenant or offer payment plans, just certified mailing the balance letter. 

Please advise me on two questions below:

1. Is that standard that PM does not talk and offer payment plan before sending to collection? If not, can I and should I do that on their behalf?

2. If the tenant is not paying at the end and we have to send to collection? Will collection agency send you report or notice on their collection progress? My PM is not the best PM in the world. I saw I was double charged for many things and clerical mistakes. What if tenant pays and PM never credits my account. How can I track them in case at some point, i will no longer hire them?

Thank you for your help and inputs.

Ruby
 

@Nathan Gesner Thank you. I will note about the photo and tenant application and make sure to push back to get them. 

@Gary Carr Thank you for the inspection note. We have not walked through or inspected the houses since pre-covid so I will make sure to do it. Funny, I did not see any late fee collected and posted on my account so I was sending a long email to my PM asking to set up installment payment and collect late fee when he misses. Then I found out, PM gets all the late fees. He is probably paying late fee every month. 

Thank you everybody for input on the late payment tenant. I am thinking about probably walking through the house and review his application, and might ask for reference again. If everything is good, I am thinking about doing month-by-month lease until he shows me he can pay on-time for a at least 3 month then we can renew the whole contract. I have a feeling he is living paycheck by paycheck and probably overspent one cycle, he seems to pay half and half mid and end of month. I hope that is not a bad idea.