All Forum Posts by: Ryan M.

Clean as long as possible, then replace. Stinky carpet attracts stingy tenants.

Good luck with that, the standard over here is appliances are included except washer/dryer.

A tenant installing a dishwasher gives me the shivers just thinking about it.

First off I call units where doors & walls destroyed mortal combat units.

We purchased a property where the tenant in one of the units shot the whole place up with a bb gun. Walls, ceilings, doors (you could hear the bbs rolling around in doors), windows, fridge, etc. I had looked at this same place in '04 but it was way too much but did look perfect. Well the previous owners bought it and now it was destroyed and wanted out for 30 cents on the dollar.

I have had kombat tenants in other units (punch
ing things, slamming cupboard doors so hard they snap in half, slamming doors so hard it slides the casing, slamming fridge doors so all the door holder tabs snap, etc.)

I try to avoid them but sometimes something causes them to go off and turn the place into a war house.

Other peoples experiences? Advice to avoid?

Are you planning to move to that area then?

I know there is people on here that have out of area rentals but I would never do it with a exception for mobile home parks.

We have friends of our family that have done very well with assisted living. There are times that Medicare will get behind on their payments and it takes some very deep pockets to keep it rolling.

Bringing this back. We have this twice now on municipal sewers. After vacuum testing the ball never gets pulled. These are new developments so it comes around a year later when it finally causes a backup or overflow.

I never plan on looking at properties, I will get a call about something, look at it that day, and if it works put it under contract in the same day.

Ok, well if you don't like your control now is the time to change it out. For the shower you can couple the galvanized with a compression fitting.

If you like the control, I would pull out the washers and heat it prior to removing the spout pipe.

I would not open the wall, your not going to like what you see anyway. Hopefully the pipe isn't screwed up near the wall. Cut it clean however long from the wall that spout calls for, pick up a universal diverter and be done with it.

I picked up a book by Lynette Benton, property owners guide to using quickbooks. This was 3 or so years ago. It is straight forward, reasonably priced, and will get you through setup. There is no frills and a good understanding of qb helps. The main main thing I was after was how to setup multiple tenants in one building, reoccurring charges, and professional p&l statements.

I still find myself using excel a lot though, but I love excel though.