All Forum Posts by: Karly Wright

Thank you so much @David Lee Hall, III!!! I appreciate you and your kindness in giving me some advice and wisdom.

We have a broken A/C unit on our duplex property. We live in the suburbs of Portland Oregon and air conditioning is more of a bonus not expected here, especially in older homes. The unit has been broken for over a decade at this point. I did not advertise the unit as having A/C. On our virtual tour with this tenant (he moved from the East coast) I said it didn't work. He's been there for 11 months now, he's been great. He is now saying it's not noted on the property inspection form that we went through when he moved in (The forms I use have no space for A/C, only heat which was checked as good). He is saying this falls under maintenance which is the landlords responsibility and is awaiting me to send out a crew to fix it. I realize now I need to have something in writing stating this unit does not have A/C, but he clearly was told this in the beginning that this unit does not have A/C and he is now looking for a loophole. Does he have legal standing here?

Hey all!

I have a duplex in Oregon and I have a very well qualified prospective candidate I'd love to rent to who is interested. The problem is he isn't moving here (from the East coast) until the end of this month, we are open and ready to rent out our unit, which rents for $1,400. He is very interested and I know he wouldn't expect us to just take a month long hit on our finances to hold it for him. I've seen others require holding fee's and then just transfer that money to their security deposit but that doesn't help on the month of rent we'd be losing to hold it. Does anyone know if it's legal to charge a daily, non-refundable holding fee? Like half of what we'd get in rent or??? I know I could do the security deposit thing but I'm not loving that idea. Thanks in advance for any help!