Lowering rent for tenants to take care of maintenance

[Michael Plante]

pros and cons?

Suggestions?

Thank you in advance 

[Josh Dillingham]

@Michael Plante my concern with this is that your tenant doesn't have any business insurance to do the work they will be doing, so if they get injured doing the job, or someone gets injured because the work they didn't wasn't up to par it falls back on you. If your tenant does happen to be a professional at doing the task at hand then I would work up a formal agreement to pay him for the work he does, but keep the rent the same.