AraBella Hannum
lease agreements thoughts
In some lease agreements I have seen that some landlords put in saying if something breaks in the home and it cost less than $100 then the tenant pays for it and $100 or more then the landlord pays for it. Is that act...
Anastasia Jordan
Sump pump for dummies.
In short it is working. Just takes all day to pump the water out the basment when it rains. It is also VERY loud and you can feel it vibrating the entire living floor. Why is it doing this?And someone told me to insta...
Srayan Guhathakurta
Tenant who was served a 14day pay or quit notice reported flood
New tenant moved in on October 2021 and was late with every single rent payment. She paid rent (and did not pay the late fee) for the month of November on 11/8 after being served a 14-day notice to pay or quit. She di...
Jennifer Christensen
Sewage damage to townhouse rental
We had a toilet at our rental overflow (not exactly sure why yet) but it's caused around 6k worth of damage.The disaster clean up company we're using has a de-humidifier that is making the rental over 90 degrees insid...
Trisha Thornton
Toilet Drains whenever Shower/Washing Machine is used
I have a very old rental house. It's had loads of problems, but the newest one has me looking for help. My tenant recently got a new washing machine. Now whenever she uses the washing machine or shower the toilet drai...
Tari Tung
Charging tenants deductible for repairs.
Hello BP! I heard from someone that as a landlord, I can charge deductible for repairs to my tenant. I know I would have to put this in the lease agreement to begin with. Let's say for an example that I put this ...
Reggie Rearden
Who is responsible for keeping a French drain clear
I have a sfh that has a French drain in the front of the house. They called this morning and said the basement was wet. I just left and seen that one said of the drain is completely buried where it’s supposed to dump ...
Joe Jor
Blocked Hot Water Radiator Return Line
Howdy gang!I have a 100 year old house in NY. After draining the hot water radiator system over the summer to replace a number of values, I was able to represurize the system without leaks.Once the heat started being...
Corey Demuth
Responding to tenant "emergencies"
I have a question for the seasoned landlords...How do you handle it if a tenant calls you about an issue that they feel is an emergency (which may or may not be an actual emergency) and you are not able to go over the...
Jon Mason
Spelling out things like light bulbs and unstopping toilets?
There was a really great BP podcast a while back where they interviewed an investor who had her renters trained so she wasn’t stuck unclogging toilets and things like that. I can’t remember which podcast that was, but...