I have a dilemma. My tenant called on Sunday and informed that the hot water heater was leaking. I sent someone with an hour an had them to cut off the water to the heater and they also drained the water from the heat...

Hello, By law does landlord need to change smoke detectors batteries or it's the tenant job. The only job of the landlord is to have smoke detectors installed?

We are looking at a 30-unit built in the 1960's, and the current building is set up with two oil boilers, one for the hot water, and one for radiator heat. The current landlord is paying over 50K per year for #2 heati...

I currently have (3) rental properties and was wondering what other landlords do for quarterly inspections- if you do an informal walk around of the outside and inside of the property or if you have formal checklist t...

I bought this condo at the end of 2021. The tenant is pre-existing, pays rent on time and doesn't give any issues, seems like a nice enough guy. He's lived there for over 5 years with his teenage son.The property mana...

There is nothing like preventive maintenance!  Its natural human instinct to take better care of things we own, and less care of things we don't own.  Like a rental property.   I think its a good idea to contact your ...

Greetings landlords. Have any of you come across a black film accumulating inside an apartment home?
Luckily this is not a unit we own, but we are trying to provide assistance in a situation where a renter is compla...

Hello,I have an unmetered rental property in Chicago and my water bill is ridiculous. The city has put a freeze (pardon the pun) on water meter installations while they "investigate" problems with old/lead pipes. Mean...

I think even if I put in the lease, it is hard to monitor/enforce that.. How frequently do you require them to change the filter? every 3 month or every 1 month?

Thanks.