All Forum Posts by: Sy Chan

Preference would be to bill tenant for work PLUS raise the rent (which I normally due in January anyways) but no chance I'll get both so rather have the monthly rent increase and eat the $500 since I'll make that up in 2/3 months.

No one here has mentioned any concerns with raising rent immediately after this work was done so think I'll go ahead with the increase now.  

Thanks for reply.  Sorry, should have mentioned we're on a month to month contract so no issues there.  Tenants been there 8 years and last few years I've been raising rent $100 to $150 per year, last year did it twice in a year.

Main concern for me is timing of the increase.

My tenant is responsible for all landscaping of my SFH and last month I received notice from the city that the property was in violation due to no landscaping maintenance for a long time (at least a year). I told tenant to fix this by hiring a gardener to do the work and reminded her of her responsibility, yet nothing was done, so received a 2nd letter from the city. So i just had my gardener do the work at a cost of $500 out of my pocket.

I read it was illegal to raise rent if work was just done that was the landlord's responsibility, but in this case it is the tenants.  So just making sure it won't be an issue when I send her notice next week of raising rent ($200/month plus another $50 for monthly maintenance as my gardener will be returning 2x/month).  I'm in county of L.A. if it makes a difference.

Thanks in advance for assistance.

This looks to be the most active landlording forum out there so look forward to contributing and learning alot!