Honor any existing leases and by all means write your name, LLC name etc on the old lease if it is to continue.A mistake I made was accepting an excuse as to why I could not inspect one unit!

Meanwhile, your tenant feels he (or she) has a pretty good excuse for making you wait and does not believe he is obligated to pay a late charge.What a lease has to say when the tenant pays rent electronically is the rent is late when the payments has not been transferred regardless of the tenant's excuse and the tenant is obligated to pay the rent with a cashier's check within three days plus the late charge and if the payment was late due to the landlord's fault then the late charge will be refunded.So, if you live within 10 or 15 miles of the property don't be lazy and go collect the rent every month and this gives you an excuse to have a nice interaction with your tenant(s) and you get to ask questions about maintenance issues like water leaks, changing furnace filters and you sort of get to inspect the property.One other way to collect the rent is to write into the lease that the tenant has to mail the payment so that it arrives by the due date.

It's one thing if you drop the ball on one of your own property's urgent issues but there really is no excuse when someone is paying you to be the guy who is always available to at least pick up the phone and for some reason you are not able to.

I mean, I know it happens, but I've heard realtors use it as an excuse when the real reason is the area, condition of the property, etc.

Someone once said that obstacles are only excuses and I want to prove them right here.

So many people use their kids as an excuse and not a REASON.

Any excuse to not pay rent, or breaking things just to "justify" their rent.

I was thinking about allowing them to mail them to the po box but, I have a feeling I will get the excuse it got lost in the mail with these tenants.

Try to get lunch in those areas as an excuse to familiarize yourself.

I wish we could always deal with a local community bank. they dont seem to fall back on policies and out of our control excuses ect. if they tell you a closing date and that you are approved, im my experience they tend to do that.