All Forum Posts by: Tami R.

I self manage nearly 200 doors. I offer cozy for payments and also they can mail checks to my po box. I had buildium for a short while and looked at others but QB has done the trick for us. Each unit is a class and each tenant is a customer. At the beginning of the month my AR shows my balance of rent due.

@Nancy Pults. Its 60 dollars everytime someone breaks into the box and steals the money. Our laundry room is locked and only tenants have the keys. I spent 240 in one month getting it fixed honestly I don't give a damn if the tenants are mad until I figure out who was breaking in as people are saying they know who it was and not saying it to me... I'm ok. Saving me on water... I've had no complaints in the first 2 weeks. Tenants have been understanding.

I have a love hate relationship with washer and dryers. In our larger city I had coin operated in our apartments, I had 4 break ins in one month and you had to have a key to get into the laundry room so I pulled them out! In some of my sfh I have increased rents 25-40 per month because I provide washer and dryers. My smaller multis have them and don't have troubles. But when it comes to coin operated I would rather be collecting 800 a month in rent not 80 in laundry money. I have thought about offering washer and dryers to tenants per month like an option to rent along with window air units and then have my employees install and remove so I know they are done correctly

I am close to 200 doors. I'm a little odd but I have two phones. One for tenants, potential tenants etc.... when I go on vacation I can give the phone to one of my employees and enjoy my vacation. My personal phone I use somewhat for business the police department has that number along with my subcontractors and employees. It has worked well

@Bob B. I agree what the heck are you using the security deposit for this. He needs to pay out of pocket. I NEVER let my tenants use their security deposit as a prepaid bank for damages along the way. You need it for the end of the lease in Full!!!

Bad situation. Seems like everyone has helped you figure some of the issues that could be causing your vacancy. On another note, my rent has been right on with the market and I have left the property vacant for 2 months only because the right tenant didnt come along. Sometimes I feel like we have cycles of just crappy tenants to decide from and its not worth renting it to any of them.... to get the house back in 6 months completely trashed with them owing money. Good luck.

Grrrr my problem the last month. I am not a fan of keys because you never really know who has a key. We have maybe 8 buildings with coin operated washer and dryer. Tomorrow we are actually taking them out of two buildings because of them being broken into. The other buildings i have no problems. I like the schlage key pad, each person gets their unique code. When they move out we delete their code.

We just started using Schlage key pads. I love them. We have around 200 doors and boiler keys, shed keys, back door keys, etc... The key pads are $89 on Amazon and then I am getting them keyed to my master lock for $10. But I think in the long run it's worth it My team has a code, the tenant has their code and then when someone like an electrician, plumbing company come in we just give them a maintenance code. It's simple. When tenant moves out we delete their code out of system. Our boilers, sheds we are going to a master key. Up front costing us money but saving us time in the long run.

This is my type of tenant.... every time I buy a bulk of apartments. The last time I couldn't find the tenant and it was because he was in jail for stabbing 5 people. Sometimes inheriting tenants is the worst!!!

I manage all my rentals and just started offering cozy. I love it. I agree it takes maybe 5 to 7 days to get ach but you get an email saying it's coming and that's all I really need to know that the money is on it's way. The system is user friendly on both ends.