All Forum Posts by: Russell Brazil

I'm in the area and know it is big business but this would be a hard no for me. Does selling the property allow for removal of the tenant? 

Can you explain what you mean that there is "no ability to non-renew"?

@Russell Brazil I appreciate your response. Unfortunately, I received information from this forum to the contrary, from a longstanding landlord working with DCHA so of course it wasn't my intention to break the law. I can resolve the back pay but would the best solution then to just change the utilities to the tenant's name moving forward?

 A year ago I had to change insurance carriers because of a change of policy by my carrier.   My insurance more than doubled. 

Most of us have insurance with the cheapest option and any change of carrier would result in a premium increase.  Add to this the risk of now having a new insurance carrier if a substantial claim has to be made and the consequences versus making the claim against a long time insurance carrier.  

I suspect in many cases a change of insurance carrier will result in higher costs and additional risk. 

I would deny the tenant based on the increased cost criteria.   I would invite the tenant to get the insurance carrier to change their policy. The prospective tenant will not succeed.  I would not change carriers to accommodate an ESA that my insurance does not allow.   

If they need an ESA, no one forced them to get an aggressive breed.  The issue is tenant caused.   They will need to find a LL where the ESA does not result in increased costs. In other words they will need to deal with the issue that their choice of ESA caused.

Hey all,

I'm a landlord in Pennsylvania and I downloaded the PA-specific lease template from BiggerPockets. I'm wondering—is that sufficient for a standard one-year lease, or would it be better (or safer) to just make an account with the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (PAR) and use their most updated lease?

I'm not planning to have an attorney review it, so just curious which route is more trusted among PA landlords. Also, if anyone has the updated PAR lease and would be willing to share it, I'd be super grateful.

Thanks!

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