All Forum Posts by: Mike Franco

Check your state's proper service instructions. I'm sure it doesn't matter if they refuse anything.

notices do not need to be signed or acknowledged.
If you see them in person, and they refuse to accept, you can just leave it on the floor at their feet.
If they don't open the door, you nail and mail.

It's really an honor system, where you promise under penalty of perjury that you did serve the notice. That's what the copy is for.

Taking photos of your notice posting will help your case. I read somewhere that is what process servers do.

I recently did a nail and mail, and I took pictures of the nailed 3day notice on the door. I also went to the post office and took pictures of the postmarked envelope. The postal clerk can postmark your envelope at the desk.

I read a bunch of reviews on Yelp of a bunch of cleaning referral agencies. Most are bad, and clean worse than you would yourself.

So I searched on craigslist, and there are some other small time maids who charge much less than big agencies like Molly Maid, merry maid, weekend maids, etc.

I figure the craigslist maids can only be as bad as the big agency maids.

I haven't had to hire a crew for move-out cleaning in years, but this time, I have to, because my tenants are college kids who have never done a chore in their lives.

A long time ago, I hired mollymaid, and the maid dumped waste water into the sink, clogging it up. Didn't have the common sense to dump it in the toilet or outside.

What's been your experience?

The convenience is worth it. I've used it for a/c, plumbing.
You don't have to waste time calling around, and the service fee is $75 each time.
Yearly fee is $4xx. You win some, you lose some. But they always have someone out by the next day, and that keeps tenants from getting pissed off.

If codes are violated, then you must tell tenants.
Safety first.

Besides, if a burglar wanted to break something, he'd break a window. You can move TV's through windows.

vinyl plank seems like it would be the cheapest in overall cost. Least labor intensive, and easy to fix.

Yep. Get a google voice number, and use it as your voice mailbox.
Filter calls, and ignore most of them.

Doing a quick google, I see that KY doesn't have a maximum limit on security deposit. So you need to collect way more.

Forget about last month's rent. Get like $2500 security deposit.
You need more security.

damn. that's cheap!

never put carpet in dining areas. That will be nasty with food spills.

Carpet will not last either in common areas like living and dining rooms.

If I were doing it, ceramic tile > laminate > carpet.

Reminds me of that show Flip Men.

They bought a house totally destroyed from the inside out by cat piss.

They had to gut the whole floor and walls and primer everything.