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All Forum Posts by: Steven Wiltz

Steven Wiltz has started 6 posts and replied 79 times.

Post: Roof lessons I've learned

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

in 15 years of MH investing and repair - Lonnie Deals, landlording, wholesaling - my conclusion on roof replacement (accounted as "repair", usually) is:

If it's a standard metal trailer roof, a membrane roof is most cost effective and efficient. 

If it's a standard 4/12 (nearly nonexistent) pitch shingle roof, it's either covered over or shingles stripped down to wood sheathing and covered with ribbed metal roofing. 

There is a method of covering a standard metal trailer roof with ribbed metal, but I have not done that yet. 

Both of my conclusions involve a professional install by an experienced tradesman. 

Post: Mobile Home

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

should be the same as any other, excepting that if it does not include the land, it is just a vehicle title transaction, but with property taxes. Ask this question at your local dmv. 

Post: Human remains

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

just bought, and I actually did return the ashes to the seller. Buy it got me to thinking, if there is no one, then what? 

Post: Rehab Materials

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

FRP panels for walls in wet rooms, VCT for wet room floors, 1x4 screwed horizontally to studs & towel bar mounted to that, *no* soap dishes in showers, high gloss white paint for trim, *no* carpet, 

Post: Human remains

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

Doing a cleanout, & there's a can in a box. Grampa Joe's ashes. There's no family to take them, so what to do? Whats respectful, legal, tasteful?

Post: How do you collect rent?

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39
Originally posted by @Ben Moores:
Originally posted by @Steven Wiltz:

yup. Ask your bank. 

 Are they able to deposit at any ATM or specifically a branch of your own bank?

 Any atm of your bank. Go talk to your bank for specifics. I know BofA does it, and I've heard wells Fargo. 

Post: How do you collect rent?

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

yup. Ask your bank. 

Post: What is the weirdest thing tenants have left behind?

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

I think every landlord has in their mind "I should write a book" 

My wife constantly reminds me... 

Post: How do you collect rent?

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

yipes, Watson. I learned not to accept gifts - jelly, food, whatever - from tenants. I took blackberry jam from berries on the property, then within 30 days had to serve for nonpayment. Awkward! 

Glad you like having a beer on the porch, but I find it creates an uncomfortable situation friendship vs. business. 

Not me, not anymore. 

Post: Newbie from Bremerton, WA

Steven WiltzPosted
  • Landlord
  • Port Orchard, WA
  • Posts 80
  • Votes 39

BUT NOT DURING THE SEAHAWKS GAME!! Call me during the week