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Details:2nd floor tenant steam boiler was not heating his apartment, so instead of calling us to fix it, he turned a water valve that proceeded to send a massive amount of water into the radiator system, sending water...
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Thank goodness for BiggerPockets! Hoping you can help me with an issue I have on a tenant-damaged rental property.
The property is in Indianapolis IN and managed by a Property Management company; I live in California...
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Dear BP members,My brother is currently experiencing a roof leak issue after recent heavy rain which damaged some of his personal properties. The main cause of the roof leak was from roofer hired by apartment manageme...
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If a tenant leaves the property damaged when they leave, do I need to have a professional estimate for the damage or can I just use reasonable repairs cost by myself?
Also how do you handle returning the s...
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So I have a rental property that I am paying a management company to maintain and rent out. It is currently vacant but on the market to be rented out. The property management company just informed me they had to pul...
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Hi all. I have a rental property in the sate of Kentucky. The tenants in my condo (upper unit) left the water running while filling a bathtub, resulting in water leaking into the downstairs condo.My tenant has $300K l...
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Hi all,Enjoying an annoying landlord experience and would love your advice.Tenant reported the master toilet to be leaking slightly from the handle. We got a maintenance guy out to inspect and repair, but he didn't h...
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Tenants claim that no animals have ever lived in the house.
I'm not sure how to proceed here and hoping to get some opinions on how to proceed. My tenants decided they wanted to updgrade the thermostat so they could control it remotely and tried to replace it without ever noti...
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Any water heater gurus out there? We're remodeling a unit after an eviction. Gas was off for a few weeks, and now that it's back on the water heater isn't working. For a while the pilot would stay lit until the unit h...