This kind of behavior can happen when a tenant is trying to get out of a lease.If you have a property manager, is it possible they're over-charging you for maintenance issues, to collect more fees than necessary?

When you're long distance and you need a toilet replaced, you're either constrained to working via your PM who will overcharge you, or you need to coordinate with an outside contract which is extremely difficult (imagine telling your tenant when to be home as some random guy is showing up to replace the toilet).

A more likely scenario is that your plumber over-charged you and did a bad job or that the deadbolt has always been problematic but your last tenant failed to report it.

Jeremy, you keep plucking that chicken but this dude's house burned and then he got overcharged to board it up by some pork-barrel-lovin' local contractor who's mighty tight with the local government.

Maybe you are being over charged for fixing things or they aren’t putting in quality tenants.

And are they capable of making sure the management company the HOA has hired isn't ripping the association off royally or giving their friends sweet contracts to fix the roads and getting kickbacks and over-charging the HOA?

If you failed to sweep and mop the floors, the Landlord can hire someone to do it for you.You could possibly contest some of the charges, but the judge would want to see some proof that you were either over-charged or falsely charged.

He fell behind in property taxes because they were vastly overcharging him: $7000 pa on a lot they now have accepted is not able to be built upon.

- Some PMC's terrible at overcharging, not properly charging tenants for damages when warranted and doing unnecessary repairs. - You should expect communication about ALL maintenance work within 72 hours- You should know the contractual threshhold requiring your approval and make sure it is adhered to except emergencies.

(Sometimes they count weekend days, sometimes they don 't)- Dont overcharge, I would say you could get anywhere from 1.5 to 1.7 your market rent in traveling nurses but do not get greedy.- You don't need to do cleanings like you would an Airbnb!