I have a problem I need advise on

I have a problem I need advise on

Chris UtterPro Member
Columbus, OH · Member since 2018 · 25 posts · 27 votes

Looking at this now, I should have posted this a while ago... Two months ago a situation came up for one of my rentals. Two of my tenants were arrested, sent to jail, and will not be returning anytime soon. The one tenant left, is able to play the full rent but split. Half on the first, half on the 20th due to SS and penton checks. She is an older that does not know how to use a cell phone, computer, or really tech and doesn't have a car. I mention this because my lease states that all payments, maintenance request, ect. go through Innago. I have been trying to help her for the last two months and teaching her how to use the app on her phone but they are many online items that need set up. She is paying the full amount of rent but I am currently driving 25min(one way) to get the check and help her set up online paying. She is doing her part and trying to set up help from different organizations. I can see the progress she is making but she is not yet approved by anyone for rent help to pay in full on the 1st. I cannot keep driving over there to pick up checks. I do not want to deal with "I sent the money, I dont know what happened" type of stuff. 

Are there other options that she may pay with that does not require tech knowledge, her coming to my home, or sent in the mail?

Should I even continue to work with her with the split payments?

Legally, if she were to leave willingly(she does not want to leave) would I have to still evict everyone since the other two are on the lease? Do you know a good eviction attorney in the Columbus, Oh area?

Please let me know if I can make anything clearer or if you have questions.

Thank you in advance!

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Theresa HarrisPro Member
Member since 2019 · 15k+ posts · 11k+ votes
4y

Why not have her give you a bunch of post dated cheques?  You can then deposit them at the right time.  Forget trying to teach her how to use the app.  It isn't worth your time as you have an alternative.

She's paying and trying, I would work with her.

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  • Jay HinrichsBusiness Member
    Real Estate Consultant · Summerlin, NV · Member since 2014 · 45k+ posts · 66k+ votes
    4y
    Originally posted by @Gary L Wallman:

    @Chris Utter

    Nonsense. If a tenant is so lame that they can't figure out how to remit the rent, you don't want them in your home. Imagine if you had 140 rentals, as I do. You'd spend your life picking up checks. Next tenant please!!

     Gary this is off topic.. but it reminds me of a client of mine i sold a big 2k acre ranch to in Northern CA.  He lived in Alameda CA which is a small island next to Oakland and pretty expensive these days.. he invited me to lunch so he could give me the keys to the gates so i could ride my quads on his ranch and fish in his lake..  Anyway it was rent collection day.. It turned out he owned about 200 doors in Alameda all free and clear and he collected every payment by going door to door we spent 3 hours before lunch driving up to these homes the rent was pegged to the front doors  NO rent he would then put a 3 day notice.. I had not thought about that in years..  But it was his only job and he paid cash for his ranch which was a ton of dough in 1990.. :)  I suspect even then his cash flow was well over 100k a month on all those free and clear houses.. not to mention today it would be a portfolio worth probably 100 million or more.  

  • Rental Property Investor · Beavercreek OH · Member since 2018 · 422 posts · 970 votes
    4y
    Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:
    Originally posted by @Gary L Wallman:

    @Chris Utter

    Nonsense. If a tenant is so lame that they can't figure out how to remit the rent, you don't want them in your home. Imagine if you had 140 rentals, as I do. You'd spend your life picking up checks. Next tenant please!!

     Gary this is off topic.. but it reminds me of a client of mine i sold a big 2k acre ranch to in Northern CA.  He lived in Alameda CA which is a small island next to Oakland and pretty expensive these days.. he invited me to lunch so he could give me the keys to the gates so i could ride my quads on his ranch and fish in his lake..  Anyway it was rent collection day.. It turned out he owned about 200 doors in Alameda all free and clear and he collected every payment by going door to door we spent 3 hours before lunch driving up to these homes the rent was pegged to the front doors  NO rent he would then put a 3 day notice.. I had not thought about that in years..  But it was his only job and he paid cash for his ranch which was a ton of dough in 1990.. :)  I suspect even then his cash flow was well over 100k a month on all those free and clear houses.. not to mention today it would be a portfolio worth probably 100 million or more.  

     Jay,

    Thank goodness they were all near to each other. LOL

    I guess if it were my only job I could handle it, but why would I want to?

    Gary

  • Jay HinrichsBusiness Member
    Real Estate Consultant · Summerlin, NV · Member since 2014 · 45k+ posts · 66k+ votes
    4y
    Originally posted by @Gary L Wallman:
    Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:
    Originally posted by @Gary L Wallman:

    @Chris Utter

    Nonsense. If a tenant is so lame that they can't figure out how to remit the rent, you don't want them in your home. Imagine if you had 140 rentals, as I do. You'd spend your life picking up checks. Next tenant please!!

     Gary this is off topic.. but it reminds me of a client of mine i sold a big 2k acre ranch to in Northern CA.  He lived in Alameda CA which is a small island next to Oakland and pretty expensive these days.. he invited me to lunch so he could give me the keys to the gates so i could ride my quads on his ranch and fish in his lake..  Anyway it was rent collection day.. It turned out he owned about 200 doors in Alameda all free and clear and he collected every payment by going door to door we spent 3 hours before lunch driving up to these homes the rent was pegged to the front doors  NO rent he would then put a 3 day notice.. I had not thought about that in years..  But it was his only job and he paid cash for his ranch which was a ton of dough in 1990.. :)  I suspect even then his cash flow was well over 100k a month on all those free and clear houses.. not to mention today it would be a portfolio worth probably 100 million or more.  

     Jay,

    Thank goodness they were all near to each other. LOL

    I guess if it were my only job I could handle it, but why would I want to?

    Gary

     a lot of them are older victorians turned into MF so one stop 3 to 5 checks all stuck to the front door LOL

  • Rental Property Investor · Beavercreek OH · Member since 2018 · 422 posts · 970 votes
    4y
    Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:
    Originally posted by @Gary L Wallman:
    Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:
    Originally posted by @Gary L Wallman:

    @Chris Utter

    Nonsense. If a tenant is so lame that they can't figure out how to remit the rent, you don't want them in your home. Imagine if you had 140 rentals, as I do. You'd spend your life picking up checks. Next tenant please!!

     Gary this is off topic.. but it reminds me of a client of mine i sold a big 2k acre ranch to in Northern CA.  He lived in Alameda CA which is a small island next to Oakland and pretty expensive these days.. he invited me to lunch so he could give me the keys to the gates so i could ride my quads on his ranch and fish in his lake..  Anyway it was rent collection day.. It turned out he owned about 200 doors in Alameda all free and clear and he collected every payment by going door to door we spent 3 hours before lunch driving up to these homes the rent was pegged to the front doors  NO rent he would then put a 3 day notice.. I had not thought about that in years..  But it was his only job and he paid cash for his ranch which was a ton of dough in 1990.. :)  I suspect even then his cash flow was well over 100k a month on all those free and clear houses.. not to mention today it would be a portfolio worth probably 100 million or more.  

     Jay,

    Thank goodness they were all near to each other. LOL

    I guess if it were my only job I could handle it, but why would I want to?

    Gary

     a lot of them are older victorians turned into MF so one stop 3 to 5 checks all stuck to the front door LOL

     Jay,

    That's good. Only 1/5 to 1/3 as big a pain in the butt. LOL

    Gary

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