Thomas Giganti
Checking in on rentals
How often do you check in and inspect your rental properties? I know you have to give your tenant enough notice per what's outlined in the lease but wanted to get feedback from the community of landlords on how often ...
Laurieann Frazier-Duarte
Landlord responsibilities with rentals
For those who have rental properties, can you mention what costs you generally cover for your tenants? Do you cover items such as lawn maintenance, extermination, alarm and cable services?Also, do property management...
Jim Hamrick
Reasonable Number of Maintenance days on Vacation Rental?
The IRS discusses vacation home maintenance days. They use examples where a family performs maintenance on a home for a week and the week is not considered personal use (it is additional to the 14 days of personal us...
Mohan Deep
Responsibility for maintaining smoke detector batteries
Does anyone know if I can create a clause in my nonstandard rental provision to assign responsibility of changing the batteries in the smoke detector to the tenant?
Gustavo Vargas
Smoke detectors responsibility
Hey guys who is responsible for checking the batteries and making sure the detectors are working properly after the tenant has moved in? ( assuming properly working and tenant check off on them) I am
In Texas, I am c...
Bettina F.
Benefits of DIY Landlording and Maintenance
Got a notice from a tenant on Saturday that her bathroom sink was leaking. My husband and I went over Sunday afternoon to take a look and assess the situation. The pop-up sink drain assembly was loose and leaking. ...
Mary Jay
how do you keep truck of things to do on multiple properties
Do you guys keep stocky notes? Or just write things in calendar?For example: dont forget to call a handyman to service AC in property 1 or dont forget to make sure property management company gets a handyman to paint ...
Sven Smith
Renters Insurance Issue
I am currently a renter, I had a drone battery that caught on fire. The fire cause damage to some carpet and foyer tile. My insurance is claiming that if the battery was a defect that they will not cover the damage co...
Michelle R.
Shopping Center- fire exit signs
We have purchased a shopping center with 20+ tenants. They are on NNN leases. The leases do not specify landlord has to handle fire exit batteries, bulbs, etc. The leases actually say the tenant is responsible for kee...
Brendan L.
What's in a DIY landlord's toolbox?
I'm diving into home ownership with a duplex. What tools should I invest in for my toolbox? It would suck to be unprepared for small repairs. Which tools are worth owning vs. renting?