All Forum Posts by: Sam P.

My tenant, who has 5 kids with her(all are named in the lease ) wants to do a home daycare and take in 1 or 2 kids. Is that a good idea? She says she will get insurance. She did not talk about license or stuff like that. . I already pointed out other tenants might not like it, but she claims they will be ok. 

Thank You. 

Is it possible to get some referrals for lawn mowing in Evanston and also how much it typically costs? It is very small lawn (around 300 Square feet)

Processing renewal for my section 8 tenant, Housing Authority of Cook County approved the rent increase, but at the same time is requesting the tenant to pay approximately $100 towards the rent after renewal, while the tenant does not have any rental obligations currently. Is this normal?

Thank you for your advice and suggestions. I am working with the tenant and conducting the showings with her agreement. I am telling every tenant they have to wear disposable gloves and booties that I will provide. I am also going to adopt Brie Schmidt's suggestion of giving a disinfectant wipe to each tenant that they can use to touch door knobs etc. The bed room will be off limits. 

@Michael Plante : The tenant decided to move out. 

@Eric Weldon-Schilling : She is moving out amicably. 

@Brie Schmidt : Thanks for your suggestion on disinfectant wipes. I will definitely do that. 

@Kyle J : This is my first multi-unit and second vacancy. Hopefully eventually I will learn to be patient :). Right now, I am rushing to post as soon as I hear a tenant is moving out. 

@Jonathan R McLaughlin : Definitely going to take the video when I go to show the place. 

@Austen Mueller: Thanks for the suggestion, something I will consider for subsequent weeks. 

It says tenant cannot "unreasonably withhold consent" to show the dwelling to prospective tenants. (Evanston Model lease agreement). Is new child and pandemic reasonable to withhold consent?

Anyway the tenant agreed for some showings on Friday, so will make use of the opportunity. 

Tenant gave me 30 day notice yesterday in conformance with the lease agreement. It was out of the blue, since earlier she said she wanted to extend. She does not want potential tenants to tour the place, because she has a very young child and does not want her to be exposed to Covid. She is instructing me to take video and show it to potential tenants. Can she refuse entry, what options do I have? One thought I have is to provide potential tenants with gloves and booties and tell them not to touch anything. Is that ok? 

This is in Illinois, Chicago suburbs

IF anybody is interested, I got a new tenant who found the vacancy in Zillow. I had to send proof of ownership before Zillow would accept my posting. I had 8 inquiries and 3 showings. 

I also posted using the basic free package in apartments.com. Got 1 lead, but no followup. 

Craig's List and facebook took down my posting saying my identity could not be verified. I had created a new email ID for managing my rental and it might be because of that. I had a showing scheduled from Craig's list and the potential tenant backed out at the last minute when she saw the ad was pulled down. 

@Jonathan Thank You. I will follow the podcast. The caseworker responded and said it will be considered with annual renewal. So will keep waiting. 

@Jonathan Hi Jonathan, The caseworker requested me to submitted the paper work for rent increase, I did that a month ago through email to the caseworker (since offices are closed) and have received no response from HACC, not even an acknowledgement. I am conflicted as to if I should escalate, but do not want to get the case worker upset also. Is this normal with HACC? what else should I do