All Forum Posts by: Lorelai Gilmore

I see you need a real estate license to do property management business for somebody else in Washington state: https://www.allpropertymanagement.com/resources/property-management-laws/washington/

This may be an unusual question. I rent a condo in the building and a similar unit is for rent through a property management company. I see it's not renting - i have a few nit picky ideas as to why but it's set for a great price in an amazing location. They posted their unit before I posted mine and I rented mine and theirs is still up for rent.

Did anybody get into the business of doing property management for others? I'm tempted to email the owners and offer up my services (would I need to have a business for this?) - I only currently rent one place. It would be really convenient since it's in the same building as my rental...

Thanks for all the inputs y'all. It was BEHR paint but I'm not sure what primer was used. I'll make sure to pay attention this time to the primer as well.

I've lived in my house 4 years as well and looking at my walls they're not even comparable. They have also made some missing chunks in the flooring (4 years old laminate from Home Depot), water damage from not telling me early enough about leakage, etc. Definitely disappointed and trying to see what to do differently next time so it lasts longer. These were my first tenants.

I used a medium-high priced laminate from Home Depot. There are even small missing pieces in the flooring in a few places. The walls are thrashed as well, they just didn't take care of the property at well. It was 4 years.

There were no pets, but there was a toddler.

My tenants have been in the unit for 4 years and they're moving out soon. The walls were professionally freshly painted before they moved in and now they're thrashed. Every single inch (or it feels like that) of the walls have a mark, smudge, or indentation on it in the common areas. The furniture, especially dining room chairs have been propped up against the wall and scraped the wall behind it with indentations, drawing on walls with crayons that they've erased with cloth but now they have smudges, etc.

Are they responsible for any of this? 4 years seems like a long time on one hand, however I've lived in places that long and the walls looked nothing like that. Not even 1/10th of the dirt and indentations. This does not feel like normal wear and tear.

I was hoping to only do minor touch ups, but the way they are it needs complete paint job.

The tenants don't want to sign another 1 year lease and i want them to vacate.

I installed new laminate flooring 4 years ago and it's now looking pretty rough (same tenants for those 4 years). I'm feeling that's not normal wear and tear. What are your experiences there?

Thanks for the reply Naomi. Their lease is ending and they want to go month to month after the lease ends. It's for family reasons, they are good reasons, I just don't feel that it's best for me. They have been ok-ish renters. My first ones so not sure how they'll compare to others. This is for a condo and they're always discussing rental caps and I feel it's safer to be locked into a lease in case a rental cap happens.

Thanks Kim. I'll send via certified mail and email then. It's still not clear to me that I have to send this in Washington state but I will just in case.

Thank you for the quick reply. I'm seeing Washington state does not have any requirements at least based on this site: https://www.rentprep.com/leasing-questions/lease-renewal-notices/

What does "mint" mean in this case?

Does the letter have to be sent by any special mail or is regular USPS ok?