All Forum Posts by: Samed Arif

Hey, thanks for the replies everyone just an update on the situation. So the one roommate that was going to re-enlist pays his rent directly to me now besides giving it to the other roommate that he got a fight with. So i am getting half the rent which is better then nothing! 

The law says "if you have orders for either a pcs or deployment longer than 90 days, federal law allows you to terminate your lease. Federal law 50 U.S.C. app section 535 known as the servicemember civil relief act (scra) provides the right to men and women in the military and their families" - this is what the tenant texts me. He says he will volunteer for any open slots if I don't cancel the lease. 

So I have a building that has about 4 evictions going on right now so I can't afford another eviction. This building is in the greater Chicagoland area. I just renovated a unit and two people move-in. One of the tenant's credit scores was ok but the other tenants was high and he made good money. These two roommates got into an argument over the weekend. The tenant with the higher credit score and better paying job calls me and says that he wants out of the lease bc he can't live with the other roommate anymore and the other roommate said he would quit paying rent. I tell him no way unless both of them sign a termination agreement. He then says that if I don't get him out of the lease, he will re-enlist with the army and be deployed so I have to "legally" let him out of the lease and cant report anything to the credit bureaus cause he is deployed now... The tenant with the bad credit score will not sign the termination agreement....

What should I do? I just want to give them there a move-in fee and tell them to find another place but the tenant with the bad credit score is going to be hard to get rid of. These people know that the courts are closed and that evictions won't happen until next year. I have 4 evictions in this building and I can't afford other tenants not paying. All and any advice will be appreciated. 

Hey thanks for the input everyone. Hopefully, we onboard a couple of buildings and hire someone permanently. We pay the handymen by the job, so changing a filter or changing a light bulb was not going to pay them a lot bc its a simple task. So like 20-30 bucks for some tasks like that.  

I am a property manager in Chicago and I am struggling to find reliable handymen/maintenance workers. We only manage 150 units so we can't put someone on the payroll and have them fix things as they come up. I eventually want to come to that.  Every time I find someone they gradually disappear and only want to do bigger jobs that pay more. I've told them that I will give them bigger jobs but they still have to do the smaller tasks for me.... 

Simple tasks such as hanging blinds, recaulking a bathtub, changing light bulbs. Noting too complex, simple stuff yet I can't find someone reasonable. 

Any ideas where I can find someone and keep them loyal? 

Can you possibly Airbnb the rental? You could bring in x3 the cashflow. It would require more management because there's people coming and going. With the university of Chicago nearby, it should stay booked.