All Forum Posts by: Rick Bassett

1 - Don't know the 'why' and don't care. 

2- I don't appreciate having my work stolen from me...do you?

Luca, also in CT, and we are running into this quite a bit since the pandemic has hit. Tenants have been using it as an excuse not to show the place, it was frustrating initially but this is how we have been working around it:

- We remind the tenant of their showing obligations (in the lease) and CT State law, as others have mentioned. Sometimes they cooperate, sometimes they don't and sometimes the place is such a $hithou$e you just can't show it.

- We do a full 10-minute video of the unit on all move-outs. If we don't have a video, because the tenant has been there for a while then we convince the uncooperative tenant to let us shoot one. 

- We tell prospective tenants that we can't give them a live viewing, they have to go off of the video. Many prospective tenants don't like this but we still have had no trouble renting the units regardless in this tight market. 

Rick

This has probably happened to many of us, my advertising text for a property was cloned nearly word-for-word by a local investor in one of his ads for a rental property.   

Usually, we can't do anything about it except rattle a saber as recourse is too costly.

But in this case, the offending party happened to be a college professor from a local university, and plagiarism in publishing is a very big (and possibly careering ending) deal. After pointing that out to him and implying that I would report him to his university the text copy was gone in minutes.....

All, 8 years later...our leases now prohibit swimming pools, trampolines, and firepits. When we buy properties with pools (which we try to avoid) we tear them down. We require renters insurance before tenants are allowed to move in and we insist on being additionally named (or additional insured) on all policies so if they do cancel we will be notified.

Nope, they got caught up in the newer section of 4" PVC that is about 10 years old. It's a long run, maybe 125' with 1 45 degree and 1 90 degree and the house is on a slab. Our plumber, who runs a drain-clearing business, says that they probably snagged on a seam and this is not an unusual occurrence. It also appears that wipes were found it there so perhaps she was flushing a combo but only admitted to the tampons.

Yes, curtain & rods until you're ready to sell the place or if you're using it as a higher-end vacation rental and then put a nice glass doors in.

Not true...we had to snake out a sewer line a few days ago, for the 2nd time, for a tenant that was flushing tampons down the toilet and the cost was $1,000.  The first time this happened we weren't able to determine what was causing the clog as the plumber broke it up and it went out to the street. This time there were so many in there that there was no breaking it up and they had to be pulled out. The tenant went crazy when we told her this bill was hers (it's in the lease) as she said that she has been using the flushable type of tampons for over 15 years and this never happened in her old house. Good times.

@Calvin Jordan never let an incoming tenant dictate/ pick paint colors and Never allow a tenant to paint.

This was a lesson learned hard after the first few move outs, causing too much extra expense and time between tenants.

Now all of the walls in all of our houses are painted one of two colors, either Navajo white or silver gray.

@Javaughn Harkness become a RE Agent and as others have said repair your credit and start saving.

@ KC Conti: Keep in mind that it's hard to replace a full-time salary and benefits without the scale of numerous cash flowing properties, always do the math before leaving your day job. Benefits (medical, dental, 401k..etc) are very expensive.

For me, the math finally works but I've made the real estate schedule work with my day job as a University Professor.