All Forum Posts by: Aqil Dharamsey

I bought a 17 unit building that needs complete rehab from electrical and plumbing to drywall and flooring. I have spoken to a bunch of contractors but no one comes through. Either they are very busy or they never show up to a scheduled meeting. I am desperately looking for a favor here. Anyone out there able to help me get this project jump start - I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

@Cody Davis good luck buddy. Let me know if you need any help. Reach out!!

One other thing

- what relieve is provided for landlords that don’t have mortgages on their investments? They simply rely on rents to run their own homes and expenses. SMH the government needs to think beyond their nose and actually

Dig deeper before putting forth such a ridiculous bill

Couple of things are going to happen if the tenants refuse to pay rent for the next 90 days.

1) major spike in evictions come the end of the 90 day period.

2) market will get flooded with delinquent tenants in the market looking for new homes prior to the 90 day period ending to avoid evictions and ruining their credit

So everyone be aware if you randomly have so many calls for your vacancy say around mod June .

Us landlord should stick together and refuse these opportunist move into our properties because they just decided to be irresponsible

And not pay their rent when they could.

@Mike Cumbie

Thanks Mike for your advice. I am certainly not new to this game. Have been buying homes for over a decade now. I won't getting into a fighting match with these thugs as I already know the results. Cameras and lights in the last have been busted and just made them more upset. Property is already in an LLC. Sadly after owning the home for 9 years, I am forced to sell it. I am under contract now with closing coming up shortly. In any other situation, I would have never sold as the investment has been extremely profitable.

Yes ROC has bad areas and although no one tricked me into buying this property or marketed as a turn key property, I was able to stomach the risk that came along for the last 9 years. I don’t want to get into a battle with the city as they are done almost nothing to assist in the situation or Reduce the open air transactions happening daily.

On to the next...

@Patricia Steiner those are great suggestions. I have tried some ( trespassing signs, calling cops EVERYDAY,). I will get local media involved and also local council man. I didn’t think of that. I actually went right to the told and got the chief of police, commissioner, and mayor of the city. Thanks!

@Lynnette E. So in the my initial post I gave a 30 thousand point of view of what was happening at the property. Here are some grass roots

1) I posted cameras and a few flood lights which last roughly 3 weeks before the lights stopped working and cameras actually disappeared ( they were connected to an app but unfortunately it didn’t record the incident )

2) after tons of pressure on the cops they finally have installed a camera right in front of the property but the activity didn’t reduce, if anything has increased drastically.

3) I have been self reporting these incidents to the authority, instead of helping they raided the house and gave me 10 points for nuisance. If a house gets more then 12 points in one calendar year, the city has the right to shut down the house and vacate all occupants. UNREAL!!

4) I installed gates so they couldn’t get into my driveway and backyard. The locks were cut and cops didn’t do nothing about that after a police report was made.

I am starting to think that maybe there is a reason why the RPD doesn’t stop this mess.

Hey BP community - so here’s the issue I am facing with my duplex in ROCHESTER NY. I own a property next to a grocery store. Lately there has been some groups of dealers selling drugs on the corner and at times they come and hang out on my front porch. I already lost a really good long time tenant to this situation. I have gotten the police and the commissioners office involved and even had conference calls with them to eradicate this situation and have not gotten anywhere. They keep promising they will do something about it and nothing in the last 90

Days. Now I am thinking of dumping the property and getting out of it but can’t even find a decent buyer because everyone that comes to see it is intimidated by the crowd.

Any advice will be helpful and also if someone knows anyone at the RPD that can assist will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Although it is a very difficult

Pill to swallow but hey if you take care of your clients, you don’t have to worry about the new laws. In NYC Tenant staying in your properties without paying any rent for months is very common, it was just matter of time before it expanded throughout the state.

Yes tenants can be a PIA at times, but if the communication is clear and expectations are front loaded, I think some of these heartaches can be avoided. Of all the changes, I think I am going to miss “cash for keys” the most...

I think @David Stott is trying to down play ROCHESTER so he can have all the great deals out there lol. Although I invest in several markets throughout US, rochester is the best cash flowing of all. When

It comes to property appreciation, this is NOT the place. Think Arizona. Florida, or TX.