All Forum Posts by: Sam Leon

Colleen not sure it is strictly a coverage issue. She said she walks outside and it'll be fine.

She did walk around my place and check signal and tested friends on her phone like how those ghost hunters operating an infrared on those shows LOL.

Just to be clear, I am not her current landlord. I am the one with a property she might be interested in moving to and this was the reason given when asked "so, why are you moving?"

Now, I don't know of her situation fully, for all I know she might have signed a new two year plan with T-mobile and switching could result in a big penalty, or she could have a job which issued her a cell phone and the company isn't going to change a group plan because one employee is getting bad reception. May be she doesn't have in home WiFi as I know some of my friends get WiFi on their computer by tethering to their phones. All I am saying is it may not be as simple as changing carriers and porting the number over, and I obviously need to ask more questions, but I thought this one is unique.

I have a rental applicant telling me the reason she is moving is because she can't stand the poor reception at her current place. Dropped calls in the middle all the time, internet surfing timeouts, she has to go outside to take calls, often times incoming calls go to voice mail without ringing.

She has been on her current place less than a month, she intends to break the lease and lose the security deposit if that's what it takes.

I do understand checking signal strength of your mobile carrier of choice while u are there may not be something many people are mindful of. Even then that may vary during the day and where you stand or which direction you face. Coverage map web sites don't help either because you go outside walk ten steps and you have five bars.

So...do you ask your applicant to double check their carrier during the showings?

Do you say "Lightning fast with AT&T 4G LTE but 0.5 bar if you climb on the roof top on your best day of the week with T-Mobile!!!" on your rental ads?

big snake, LOL.

I am not sure what happened.

Initially when I used Postlets the property address shows up on Zillow.

Now suddenly it changed to (Undisclosed Address). The map still shows the correct location, but I didn't do anything and it just switched out the address all by itself.

I went back to Postlets and the address is there. But not on Zillow.

On Hotpad it shows the street name and city, but the street number is not there anymore.

I am not following this.

Lowes sells GatorBite.

Home Depot sells SharkBite.

The removal tool looks like this:

[img]http://images.lowes.com/product/converted/683264/683264652705lg.jpg[/img]

There is a trick to remove them without those, however.

John Guest fittings do not require a removal tool.

John, one question on the sharkbite toilet valve. You said you like it because you can cut the stub closer to the wall finish. I am having a hard time understanding what you meant. If you use a sharkbite push in valve, the only way to release it is to use that orange "U" shape gadget. That means between the wall finish and the base of that valve, one needs to reserve enough length of pipe to fit that orange gadget and a finger. So to me it adds to the length of the exposed pipe, unless I am missing something.

I usually have a machete hanging on my belt and put an eye patch over my left eye when I go see or show a property.

When I introduce myself I say "hi I am Sam but my friends call me the governor".

Zero problem.

Got an interesting call today.

Said he's interesting in the condo I have available for rent, OK...

Said he's right outside and just read through the data sheet I provide (I have a box on the sign with some flyers with the same basic information online). Sounds good...

He wants to look at the place and is ready to move this weekend. I said I am not there but can meet him there at a mutually convenient day and time.

He said he's renting nearby, and was walking his dog, and while his dog was "dropping some heat onto my sign post", he saw the flyer box and got curious.

I said if you looked at the flyer it does say no dog cats only for this property as it's the HOA rule and nothing I can do about it but I would appreciate your dog not dropping heat on my for rent sign post!

Cuong Le, yes I have seen the properties rented via MLS and they can generate a report of asking rent and actual rent. One has to have access to the MLS to see it though none of the third party sites provide it probably not because its top secret info most likely they just didn't include a filter to mine that info.