Adam Craig
Contacting tenants before late charges kick in?
Our rent is due on the 1st and we offer a 3 day grace period. After 3 days a $25 late fee is applied and $10/day after that.We recently switched off our property manager and we are managing all 32 properties in house....
Sib Bahjat
TENANT ISSUES/HEADACHES
Hello BP family, I hope this note finds everyone well. I have been a landlord (residential property) for over 5 years and I have been lucky with securing good tenants over the years. The only challenge I have had w...
Kenny Smith
Quick Tip on Guest Instructions!
As our short term rental portfolio has continued to grow (3 so far), we've learned so many things along the way. Quick Tip, whatever can go wrong, typically will at some point! All we can do as property owners is do...
Delice Manywa
Bad communication from a property manager
I have a property management company managing my rental ( recently signed a two year contract with them). I think they re great in what they do but their communication system is horrible. They rarely reply my emails a...
Abby Holland
Security Deposit Return Before Move-In Date
I had a unit come available March 7th. I had applicants within a few days. They gave me a deposit on March 13th but didn’t sign their lease right away for an April 1 move-in. They asked to push the date to mid April t...
Jeff Jenner
Tenant Parking in the Common Driveway
Hi All,We own a triplex in a Chicago suburb that has 4 parking spaces in the rear that are accessed by a common driveway. One of the tenants keeps parking their car in the driveway for any length of time, sometimes ov...
Daniel H.
Evicting TAW
I am currently in the eviction process w two problem tenants(separate units). They are on month-to-month rental agreements. They have both gone to housing inspector and I have received some violations. I always res...
Nick Johnson
Minnesota Furnace broke - Renter demanding discount
We recently had a furnace break two weeks ago and the renter is demanding a refund. The night we were notified, we examined it found some loose connections and got it running again. The next day it broke again we de...
Leo Shilkrot
Tenant is unreasonable
Tenant texted me saturday morning saying ac is not working. I offered to stop by the same day (last time the battery needed to be replaced in the thermostat) but he said it was not a good day for him. Sunday morning h...
C Rutherford
Responding to tenants
Small landlord here. I just have 5 units and am doing other work to help pay the bills in addition to doing all the property management myself (upkeep, repairs, cleaning in between tenants, mowing, finding & int...