All Forum Posts by: Steven Wang

The risk you take is that they don't like the property and want to cancel the lease later, costing you lot more vacancy and marketing expense. If this is medium term rental at furnished home, then it won't matter.

 Technically, it is not trespassing because he claim to be injured on the public sidewalk in front of my house. 

I am not sure if I am liable to sidewalk injury in my city. Going to let my insurance lawyers figure this out. 

Meanwhile, I put traffic cone on this site so I won't get another opportunist making the same claim. 

Once my insurance company sort this out, I will repair this right away.

I have great relationship with my tenants at this property. The person filing this claim is total stranger. 
Might not even be a local because from their name, they don't match the local ethic demographic group. 
I wonder if it is one of my contractor's workers saw this defect and use it as an opportunity to cash grab.

Thanks for everyone's help.

I will upgrade all my liability coverage policy to 1-2 mil today. 

Hi All,

I own properties in Bay Area at CA.

I recently got a letter from a lawyer claiming that I was negligent with maintaining the sidewalk, which resulted in his client trip and fall over it.

There are no mention of what type of injury and damage.

The letter show a half a foot section that is more than 1 inch in elevation. This elevated part is parallel to the sidewalk, meaning that you can't trip over it unless you decide to do a 90 degree turn to the street at this exact half of foot spot. 

The letter strongly ask me to contact my insurance company about it.

I read on PB that the best course of action is to contact my insurance company to defend me.

Since I am not as seasoned, I choose this as a safer option. My insurance policy got 500k liability coverage. 

However, I am still concern because this is my first time dealing with this. What do you guys think? 

What should I do to handle this situation well? Thanks