All Forum Posts by: Carrie K.

Two things:

- If all this talk about "a mortgage moratorium" is going to have any impact, it's going to take people reaching out diplomatically and sympathetically (i.e., in a way that seems deserving of sympathy) to their elected officials, so I'd encourage that.

- I'm not hopeful about it based on the efforts to slow foreclosures during the 2008 era. Banks acted like they were working with the borrower and then boom, foreclosed. Plus, (and maybe today's move by the fed changed things but I don't know), I've been hearing that there is a real lack of liquidity out there so they may resist a suggestion like this. I'd start efforts to get more capital in your reserve fund if you don't have enough to get through this. Refinance maybe?

Just my two cents -- these could be tough times. Buckle up everyone.

I don't allow smoking so many of these would be out, but if I were you, I'd be really cautious about discriminating on the basis of people having illnesses / needing care (disability), having 4 kids (family status), or foreign language ability (ethnicity). I'd be cautious about being sure an animal's service status was fake. (I don't think they're required to be spayed necessarily.) I'd probably rent to #4 and maybe 5-6 if they had a landlord reference that the animal isn't harmful to property. 

Would love to be part of this, thanks.

I don't know a reliable GC for that size of job (I know some UNreliable ones and one I believe to be reliable who does bigger stuff), but message me if you get to the point where a plumber referral would be helpful. I've been working with someone on and off since 2014, and he hasn't skipped town or flaked on me yet.

Sorry you had to deal with this. I'd do some calculations --

3 days no AC upstairs: 50% of property totally unusable = 3 days * ($5600/30 days in an average month) * .5 = $280

1 day no internet: could not work, had to use 1 vacation day = $300

1 BA not working = 5 percent of square footage = $5600 * .05 * 3.5 = $980

Etc.

Then I'd let myself get negotiated way down, to like $500-1000.

In the future, I'd start asking for the refund closer to the time when it happened. By Week 3 you probably should've been asking about a rent reduction.

Good luck!

Did you look into Manteca? I know a couple of people who live there and like it...

I'd expect them to look at where the property tax bill was sent to, as a preliminary screen. 

$250 deposit, $50/pet/month additional is what we aim for. It depends on the rental market whether we get it. We don't charge for ESAs, as they are not "pets." 

Our attorney told us that renting over five rooms (under some circumstances) qualifies as a boarding house. Might be something to watch out for if your house is really big.

Your friends are wise not to mix business and friendship. A person can always find a new agent if things aren't going well, but if doing so could damage the friendship, they're in an awkward spot. View their decision as them saying "I value you too much as a friend to risk our friendship over this." My two cents anyway.