How to Handle Small Cosmetic Issues
I have a tenant 1.5 years into a 2 year lease. So far so good, had a few issues came up but handled them and everything has been fine.
He recently brought up two issues with me though and I'm not sure exactly how to handle them:
1. Near the front door, where the carpet meets the tile, the tack strip is starting to get exposed (maybe half an inch or less wide, a few inches long). My handyman (who's very good/smart dude) looked at it, nothing he could really do though since you can't add carpet. Best course of action?
2. The cabinets in kitchen/bathrooms were painted right before the tenant moved in. I had a guy paint over the old laminate cabinets. Not the most elegant solution but looks pretty decent when painted (rest of kitchen is pretty nice with ss appliances and granite counters - bathrooms are just regular white tiles). My tenant sent me pics that the paint is chipping around the handles/knobs but again, not sure what I can really do here. I could have someone re-paint but it will be costly and more of a temporary solution since it will likely chip again. Or I could re-face cabinets which would obviously be a huge/expensive project? Thoughts?