All Forum Posts by: Sam Abe

Hi, 

I’m considering moving from California to Glen Allen Virginia with two kids five and seven year old. Do you think it’s a good place to live? How is life in Glen Allen? What is the best neighborhoods in Glen Allen for school and where should one live are there good public schools or what are the best private schools in Glen Allen or around? 

Hi! We hired a company to rent our place only for leasing and we will manage once it is rented. 

They are not disclosing information needed to approve the tenant. For example they are just saying the credit score is above 650. They are not disclosing proof of income. How can we approve if we can't see the information. 

They claim it is private information and can't be disclosed. Then how do we decide if we should rent to the potential tenant and not just rely on their review.

We have a house 3b/2b that was damaged and we had to evict the tenants. We made an insurance claim for the damages and are looking at 100K in damages. Looks like insurance will cover the repairs as per our policy. My concern is has anyone made such a claim? What are the downsides of this? 

Will the monthly insurance sky rocket if so how much? 

Thank you all. Luckily it was not a very big issue. Got it resolved by just hiring a plumber. 

We just noticed saggy ceiling from water leak from upstairs bathroom. It is a duplex. We dont have insurance is it possible to claim insurance if we buy today as we were about to buy it this week. 

What are some steps to take to avoid further damage? 
First time we are dealing with this kind of issue. Should we shut the whole house water off?

We have squatters in our house. They are reporting mold issues after squatting the house due to covid for over a year. For the past year they lived they never reported anything to the extent that due to fear of eviction they are now reporting mold and the property is completely damaged. The cabinets are destroyed from how they lived, the bathroom vanity is destroyed. When they are now reporting the mold issue to us for the first time, clearly the damage doesn't look recent, the property hasnt been cared for long over 1 year at-least. We were not aware of condition inside as they are squatters living for free due to covid until they feared eviction coming up. The condition at the point they are reporting is very bad as all vanities and every single lower kitchen cabinet needs to be replaced. 

Who would be responsible for this? House has a 70K damage with everything inside destroyed. They are reporting us but to be able to take care we need them to leave. Can we justify later the delay in fixing it after we evict them. Would we be asked why we didn't fix mold because its not even feasible to fix without taking 1/2 the house apart. 

We rented our house 4 years ago and now the tenants abandoned and left with their adult kids living in the house. Now we have to evict these illegal tenants as we had no sub leasing. 

On top of all these they are reporting us to city for broken kitchen tile bathroom tile and cabinets. How do we fix these as the house is a mess fixing a few things the inspector listed won’t solve the problem. The kitchen cabinets are all damaged, under sink is damaged and molded and water damaged. They want us to fix all this and mold remediation and haven’t even paid rent for this year and now we have started to evict an will be filing today but the city has deadlines and we need to comply. 

How do we handle repairs while in evcutkn

I have all that written on all my leases and tenants have been great but then the daughter moves in and she stays and the original tenant leaves. Once anyone enters the only way is eviction which is no easy route.. Especially now with moratorium all this makes it hard. 

But it does sound like even if we go to court since original tenants left they dont get an eviction on their record from my experience which makes it easy for them to walk away. We have no subletiing, and statements that say you are resposible till the unit is vacated even if anyone left behind. But they do it fearlessly and judge doesnt put an eviction on their record from my understanding if they have vacated. 

OK I am losing hope here! I give up! I didn’t do anything wrong and I am not sure why laws are not even on our side with the ridiculous amount of taxes we pay!!!!!!!!!

I have some very bad tenants who are not only not paying rent but they are bringing all kinds of trouble to a very nice residential street.. subleasing my house where my lease clearly states no subleasing of any sort - They already acknowledged while I was away for a year due to Covid they had brought in another person who is not on the lease and I never approved off to live there permanently..They are bringing in prostitution! hoarding stuff in my basement! using my laundry without my permission! They trashed both of my balconies while I was away…Damaged my garage door.. Many times strange visitors to the property would knock the wrong doors and wake neighbors up in the middle of the night - my immediate neighbor has videos of that ..the cops have been here many many times..And the list goes on...  The entire street is down my throat wanting me to a evict them.. I tried..I spent weeks on the phone with lawyers - no luck - the ones who do evictions don’t want to handle the case!! What do I do ? Any help is greatly appreciated..  I hope some decent lawyer in Troy New York -where this is happening - can read this and sympathize with the situation and help me. and this neighborhood with evicting them out of here..

This message is on behalf of me and my family with two kids and my entire neighborhood and street!

Thank you.

Any recommendation for eviction attorneys in Troy, Ny.I have a duplex and tennat hasnt paid rent and has brought in illegal tenants to live in. 

Location, Troy, NY