Steve Fitzgerald
Lease Review- Anything to add?
Here's a lease I'm working on for a property I now in CT. Anything you would add?Steve---------IN THIS LEASE the words "we", "us" and "our" mean the Landlord, ________________________.The words "you" and "yours" mean ...
James Phan
Failed to give 30 days notice, when does the clock end?
This is in Texas. If a tenant fails to give proper 30 days notice, when does the clock end for loss rent that I can charge them? For example, 30 days from when they gave notice or 30 days from when their lease ends? A...
Salvatore Giancola
Dryer responsibility, tenant or landlord?
Recieved below email from my tenant :'The dryer has been acting up the last couple weeks - today it official stopped working and I can’t get it going. Would you be able to send someone out to look at it?' Is it the la...
Justin B.
How do you approach a neighbor..
I purcahesd a duplex last fall and we noticed the neighbor has a large amount of dirt leaning up against the back of our garage which is starting to rot the wood of the garage. I talked to him previously about its eff...
Jeff Sheraton
Tenant Requirments
I am working on putting together a more formal tenant requirements list. We mainly do low income rentals, average rent is around $800. Looking for comments on what I have so far and what has worked well for you.Here...
Jack Stone
AZ - last month rent and security deposit
We have a tenant who wants to use their security deposit as last months rent in Arizona. AZ law enables a security deposit to be a max of 1.5 months rent. Which we collected. Now that they are leaving they want to not...
Chris G.
Storm Damage to Rental Property
Have a weird layout property where the front door is on the 2nd floor and there is a set of wooden stairs to get up there. A large tree fell during the storm last week and took the stairs out so the tenant has no way ...
Kusal Kularatne
Converting Short-Term Rentals?
I hear a lot of people wanting to give up on their STRs because the model has a lot of vacancy (inconsistent rent) and takes more work than a buy-and-hold asset. What do you think about the co-living model as an alter...
Catrina Linhard
Building & Benchmarking Your Emergency Maintenance Operations
Most property managers and landlords would put maintenance at the top of the list for biggest time sucks and biggest headaches. Emergency maintenance can lead to long term property damage that effect your bottom line ...
Aaron Heun
Renew Lease or Not (Early Payer, Bad Tenant)
I am a newbie, just converted my primary residence to a rental last summer. We're nearing the end of our first lease and have a bit of a problem tenant but they pay rent early or on-time every month. We're on the fe...