All Forum Posts by: Jeff Gates

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Reserve for vacancies, is important. However can you avoid vacancies altogether? A landlord friend of mine has avoided vacancies for 12 years with three properties. He prices his properties below market.

After I read all these things. It would be great to find a booklet which informed the inexperienced tenant how the bad things can happen during an eviction to them and how this scar would stick with them when they need new housing in the future. When you post the 3 days notice on the door you could drop this booklet on the doorstep. 

It is based on Police protocol. Each department may have different rules. But generally they want the courts to judge tenancy rights. 

Be careful with the police. They may have requirements to protect the humans tenancy rights. Many police departments have protocol about this situation. If they have been in the unit over night, the police will protect them. If there is no over night, you have burglars and you press charges. The tricky part about the overnight is the police treat this is a landlord tenant dispute. And this can be true if there is no lease as there can be verbal agreements. In this case the police want you to file for eviction and have a judge make the decision. Now every police department has their own protocol. If there is over night, then don't call the police. Just offer the swatters some money, and one night hotel room. As soon as they are down the street and out of the unit, then you change the locks and hire security folks.

You should do this over the phone. How many applicants do you get?

I thought Tenant Cloud was $9 a month with $2 to verify identity? How does it work with ACH rent payments?

Here is what I do with the fridge. I place it in the garage. When I show applicants the home for the first time, I state that they are welcome to use this fridge, but no guarantees, as the last tenant left it behind. This way I won't get a call when it stops working. 

To pay online is great. To set up auto pay is asking for more NSF mistakes. Not all renters have enough money in their bank account the day the auto pay triggers the payment. When a renter makes the payment online without autopay, they know each month if they have enough money in their account at the very moment they make the rent payment. 

One way is to ask for a image of the front and back of a past rent check. Most folks get these from the bank.