All Forum Posts by: Pranitha Shandi

What's the best place to find the local laws.  Presume it's county-based... I have searched on Google... and wasn't sure.

The area where my property is: 97229 (Portland, OR)

Natalie, I am in the same boat as you. I don't think I would care about their Background or Credit information as that is required only as part of their candidacy. Considering that they are being good tenants, I see no reason for that for you. However, for the contact information... you can possibly ask it. I got it incidentally as I had to file their information to the HOA association.

See my thread for few responses on a similar topic: 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/800534-anyone-go-from-using-a-prop-manager-to-self-manage-during-a-lease

Would like to listen to your experience... as I would probably initiate the firing and indulge in self-management in 1-2 months.

Thanks Calvin for your response.  I have experience managing one other property.  The property that I am trying to take over is 2005 built home where I stayed for several years and know the area/handymen... so far the current tenants have not had any maintenance requests... Those give me the confidence of doing it myself.  

I would like to hear from you any possible headaches that I may incur taking over midway throught the Lease.

Thanks Isaac.  Hoping the transition during an ongoing Lease does not cause any hiccups to the tenant or me (fumbles)

Created my own and Sharing it here... Feel free to use, copy, edit as it suits your purposes:

https://docs.google.com/forms/...

Hit "Make a copy" to continue.

Hope this is helpful

Bump!!!

I currently manage a property myself (I live close to this). Another property that I own is being currently managed by a property manager ($200 monthly fees). I am not happy with my Property Manager and plan to take it upon myself. My contract with Prop Management is a 30 day heads up to discontinue the Management service. There is still 5 more months left on the lease of current tenants. The current tenants seem to be nice and no complains so far. I will inherit about 4 months of current tenant (hope he renews the lease 😊). 

From the peers here, I would like to know what are the items that I need to be wary of, taking it on myself. Would you recommend waiting until the end of current lease? 

Thanks Flash Alexander. I am looking for something that the tenant can input electronically as well such as in SurveyMonkey (or GoogleForms) or easy to enter forms. 
Word documents work but when are you doing an long application, they are always space constrained and can’t have conditional entries. 

Newbie to Landlording.

Having read the book by Brandon Turner, I realized that there are few information gathering forms (such as Application, Potential Tenant Questionnaire, Move-out Survey Form, etc) that can possibly be converted to Electronic Survey forms (such as Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics, etc)

If anyone is kind enough to share their Electronic Survey forms, I can try figure out how the form can be replicated with another person so that I can customize and reuse.  I can pitch in by creating any forms that you have been considering and putting off... or in other possible ways.