All Forum Posts by: Robert Fountain

In may of this year I decided to sell one of my units. I gave the tenant a notice to vacate.

The tenant did not pay rent for the last month and did about $5,000 with of damage / junk removal to the unit. Carpet is trashed, walls are damaged, doors ripped off hinges etc. security deposit covered rent but the rest is outstanding.

She left before final walkout and of course did not leave a forwarding address but I do have her name , SSN and date of birth from her rental application.

My thoughts are to send an itemized list of damages in a certified letter to my unit and hope she left forwarding address with post office. Eventually I can get her new address and then sue her on small claims. Chances are she won’t show and if she does, I have all the evidence so a judgement should be fairly easy. Now collecting the judgement is another story.

Has anyone successfully collected in a situation like this? If so, what was your strategy?

Also to add that you’d have the city license fee and inspection issues to deal with which eats into your roi. Hagerstown is not landlord friendly  

The north end is the best by far 

Michael

I went with apex home improvements in greencastle. They did a really good job 

Born and raised in Scranton, Pa (Clarks Summit to be exact).  Where in Scranton did you see these properties?  There are many different areas, each of which will have their own positives/negatives.

Scranton, as a whole, is a depressed city.  Unless you were born and raised in the area nobody really moves there.  There aren't any jobs unless you work in a factory or want to commute to NYC every day.   You have the University of Scranton, Marywood University and Johnson College (university?) all in or around Scranton.  Scoop up some properties by those areas and you could get some pretty stable rentals.

As far as your #2, I wouldn't really be concerned with that.  Nobody is going around the city and torching it.  

Let me guess... Billwood Properties?

I have a tenant moving out of one of my 1br units at the end of the month and I'm looking for a contractor to do a bathroom remodel and some small repairs throughout the unit.  

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Definitely interested.  can you send more info to me at [email protected]

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I'm looking for a roofer in the Hagerstown, MD area that can repair some shingles that blew off the roof on one of my rentals.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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