All Forum Posts by: Christen G.

Sami, what does your lease state? If it is against lease terms (depending on your state's laws and any COVID related restrictions), you can post a Notice To Comply or Quit.

I'm sorry this happened to you and your tenant. I would keep their emotional outburst out of it and stick to your lease + protocols - if that means the tenant pays, then so be it. If it's a financial strain on the tenant, then perhaps putting them on a payment plan over time helps that issue. Best of luck.

This sounds like a job for @Nathan Gesner

There's a REALLY good podcast episode on Contractors and mindsets...I would highly recommend it: https://www.biggerpockets.com/...

I'd also suggest J Scott's book on estimating rehab costs, so you can get a general sense of the language, terms, etc... that are common. 

As for how to find folks - look on Yelp, Thumbtack and word of mouth from other locals. Best of luck to you!

Pet addendum all the way. Follow your local laws and get everything in writing plus an extra $50/mo per pet. Hopefully it's a reasonably well behaved dog.

this is FANTASTIC

Paid storage seems like a no-brainer!

You know, I went through a pretty intense mediation last year for something unrelated to real estate and I can say with full confidence that this mediator was terrible. He was basically like "let's get to an agreement, everyone should give up a little something" - but he also let her go on and on and interrupt and just show her full crazy - it was a giant waste of time. 

I couldnt disagree more.

At mediation, we were said, look, we'll give up the counter suit and all walk away no harm, no foul. And for 2 hours (!!) was like no, I want my deposit - rambled, interrupted, lied, etc... And it looked like it was going before a judge and to try and prevent it from going to the judge, dragging it out for us, etc... AND making her lose her voucher, etc... we offered a roughly 50% - she declined. We were like, cool - see ya in court. Anyway, she emailed us and said she'd take it, so we're drawing up the release now and hoping she means it and we can avoid the court room - for everyone's sake!