All Forum Posts by: Bob Billingtonz

We recently found out our lease is void/unenforceable due to some wording in there related to who is responsible to pay for attorney fees. Is there a way we can ask our tenant to resign a new lease without having to tell them that their current lease is void? Or should we just cross our fingers that we don't have any issues with them that would take us to court? We are obviously planning to have an attorney draft our next lease so make sure it checks all the boxes but their lease doesn't end till May 2025.

We have this statement in our lease as well and we just found out that you cannot have that in your lease. Heart sank when I found out.. My question is, would would happen if we were taken to court and the attorney brought this up? Would we have to give the tenant all the rent money they've paid so far? 

Is there anyway we can ask the tenant to resign a new lease without making it suspicious? Their lease ends in April 2025. 

The issue I could see with this is they have a 6 mo lease and we didn't state in the lease that their primary heat/ac controls are with the mini split and it does a good job of heating upstairs but the downstairs still gets heat/ac from the other unit. They want to keep "costs down" in the winter so they are wanting to primarily use gas not the mini split (since they pay for electricity.) 

Hello BP community - we are new landlords and we are having some issues with our side-by-side duplex. We have installed a mini split in their unit which is located upstairs. The downstairs receives some heat/AC from the other side since the place was one house at one point and only had one furnace. The other side that they don't live in is kept between 68-73 degrees throughout the year depending on the season. The tenants know the mini split is their best bet for controlling temp on their side, but they do not want to not pay for the energy to run it and would prefer the gas gets used (gas is included in their lease.) We have installed the mini split for them and given them plug-in heaters. Below 71 degrees they claim is too cold and above 72 is too warm for them. We have offered they can terminate their lease at no penalty charge because frankly they complain a lot and are unhappy with the residence. They have claimed their thermostat changes temperature (ex. they set it at 72 before bed and wake up and it's 65 degrees in the morning.) They want the heating element to be inspected however we know it is working properly and the main heat/AC for their unit is the mini split, not the thermostat. We don't want to install another furnace as we just spent well over $1000 on the mini split. What should we do?