All Forum Posts by: Phil C.

@Jonathan Spaeth 

It is called "Atlanta REI Meetup". You might have to sign up when attending the monthly meetup. I am not sure other ways to sign up the Facebook group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/270978073318709/

@Quan Chen

Yes, it is on.

There is a separate facebook group for people in this meetup. I copied the latest meetup information in the following.

Reminder: this Wednesday, 9/26 is the September Meetup. It’s at 7pm at The Ivy in Buckhead, upstairs. Valet parking is $3, and there is food and drink available for purchase. You won’t want to miss this one. We have Jesse LeBlanc telling his incredibly story of going from 6 figure student loan and credit card debt, to wholesaling and flipping his way to domination and running his real estate investing business that has 10+ employees and doing more deals than we can keep up with. Be there or be square

As promised, here is what we eventually did for the stranger traffic issue. After we installed the pillars for a few weeks, we asked the feedback from our tenants. 

They LOVE it. The stranger traffic / party issue did not happen again after the installation. We plan continuously building more security features in the apartment to show people our seriousness!

Thank you all for your contribution!

We recently purchased a property at Atlanta, GA with tenant living in the property. On the lease, there was certain amount of deposit from the tenant. When we did the closing, the attorney put the deposit in an escrow account.

After the sale, the previous owner states that the tenant has not paid the rent for a couple of months, so the deposit has been forfeited therefore should be returned to the previous owner. Now the inherit tenant did not pay the rent to us and is currently in eviction. In this case, can we claim the deposit? Or is it up to the previous owner and the new owner to figure out a way to divide the deposit? 

Thanks!

Just to share my plan with team, I plan to build something in the following video. However, instead of doing the expensive bollard, I will build something similar but with just 8*8*16 concrete blocks and 4*4 pressure treated wood secured with concrete on the ground. It will look like a line of mailbox poles and then I connect them with metal chains from homedepot.

I know it is not as strong as the bollard. But I hope it can last enough years until the strangers won't come over any more.

Thanks team for your response. 

It looks like it is not a big concern in terms of building code. However, we will stop by the City and just double check it. 

Regarding the actual project, I would prefer it to be a visible setup instead of 'invisible' setup to harm the strangers. I treat it more as a 'word' than a 'weapon' from us to tell them to go away though it is truly a kind of 'weapon':) Also for liability, I don't want the setup to accidentally harm the tenants.  

If you have other ideas on dealing with strangers, please share with team as well :)

Thanks Jim @Jim Hiler.

I am that professional as your thoughts:)  What I am thinking is just to put those 6 by 12 concrete blocks every 2 feet on the ground and then pull concrete to seal each block on the ground. That way, I kind of create a barrier for the cars between the parking lot and the backyard lawn from driving to the backyard. Hopefully the strangers cannot easily drive in to have night activities at the backyard of the apartment. Then after a while, they will not bother to come over any more.

BTW, because the apartment is fenced around already, the only way that people can get to the backyard is to go through the parking lot. 

Do you think this simple way will have anything to do the building code?

Hello colleagues,

While we started working on an apartment building (15 units) at Atlanta downtown (GA), we were told some strangers drove cars through the parking lot to the lawn backyard during some nights. Tenants are concerning about the night activities from those strangers. 

I got an idea on permanently putting some concrete blocks (6 by 12) on the ground to prevent strangers from driving to the backyard of the apartment building. Does anyone know if there is any building code related to that or not? Or if you have any other experience or idea to get strangers away from the property, can you please share with us? Thank you so much!

I just found this event. Thanks @Jered Sturm for setting it up. 

I will attend the next one for June event. If my name needs to be added to the list, please kindly help me with that. Excited to connect and see everyone there!

P.S. If someone is near Sandy Springs area during the day Monday to Friday and would want to discuss real estate, please ping me. I will be very happy to have a lunch together :)

First, as long as it is a good tenant paying rent and maintaining the property in good condition, there is no reason to let him go. 

Second, if the tenant can do good improvement with his money and labor, why would you stop it? I guess the only concern is you are afraid of paying the improvement cost, getting undesired or unqualified "improvement", losing the ability to increase rent, etc. If that is the case, you can simply state it clear in the lease. When you renew the lease, you can be frank and say it in the lease the improvement needs to be approved by the landlord and conducted by professionals, the tenant will be responsible for the cost, etc. 

For example, even a new paint paid by the tenant will need an approval from the landlord.