Emily Boyfish
Experience with Tenants Vaping
I'm curious to hear if any of you have had a negative experience with tenants vaping. In my opinion, in the over 20 or so tenants we've had in our 3 rentals by far the most damage ever caused was by a couple who both ...
Prachi Metha
Zinsser or Kilz for Cigarette smoke
My newly purchase house has a Cigarette smoke from the previous owner. Ozone treatment and duct cleaning is done, it helped but still smoke is there. Next step is I am moving to get house paint with Zinsser or Kilz pr...
Courtney Duong
Foul smell in one of occupied unit at a multi tenants retail
Hi all,We have a 9 units retails and as of now there is 1 vacant (which should be filled up soon). From time to time we had complaints from existing tenants that there was foul smell inside of their occupied units (o...
Eric Rossi
Neighbor's Sewer Backing Up on My Property
Hello,I bought my first rental property 3 years ago, which was an old (1886) single family home in the city. About a year after buying it, my tenants started complaining about smelling sewer gases. After doing a cam...
Niti Bhat
Weed problem from a nextdoor neighbor
We have a townhome in Raleigh which has been rented to a nice couple. They are facing issues with their next door neighbor who uses weed and the smell of it is coming in their home too from the vents, which is causing...
Bill Flannagan
Landlord repair effort when returning security deposit
I recently completed my first year of being a landlord. The lease has ended and I owe the tenants part of their security deposit back. I had to have some repairs completed. Some things I had to sub out and have invoic...
Mark Forest
Dishwashers?
We have had bad luck with dishwashers leaking and the tenants not telling us. Are dishwashers necessary? I am thinking of pulling all of them when the respective tenants leave.
Mike Franco
Who is crazy enough to rent to someone planning to file bankruptcy?
I got a call from a prospect who was upfront with me about her plans to file bankruptcy.
For landlords, this is just asking for punishment, isn't it.
I haven't met her yet, but she says she has enough to cover her r...
Alex Maclagan
Whats your best method for removing wallpaper?
I just bought a rental property and in the kitchen they have two layers of wallpaper. I've tried using DIF and water and I've tried using downey and water. What method does everyone use to remove wallpaper in their ho...
Roshan Taheri
Removing tobacco stains from tile
This is my first rental property purchase and we are fixing the place up. Prior tenant smoked so bad that there’s tobacco stains on the floors and light switches and walls. We got the walls covered and the light switc...