All Forum Posts by: Stone Teran
Stone Teran has started 53 posts and replied 369 times.
Post: Tenants Dog bites am I liable???
- Investor
- Cincinnati, OH
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I don't have an answer but let me ask some questions that may help get us there:
Was the tenant allowed to have a dog?
Have you ever received a complaint that the dog gets loose or is aggressive?
Post: Do you know any tricks to make a leaning house look like it's not
- Investor
- Cincinnati, OH
- Posts 374
- Votes 120
I would lean the pole. Yeah, it's not yours but you are a friendly neighbor with a diesel that wants to help the city :)
My only other suggestion would be to add a layer of brick veneer on that side that offsets the lean.
Post: AC repair
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- Cincinnati, OH
- Posts 374
- Votes 120
Sunny, let the man come back and locate the leak. If it's in the lines, he should be able to fix it. If it's the condensor, you may have some major replacements to make. As one person said, 8 years is nothing.
PS-Your tenants will not replace the filters regularly no matter what your lease says.
Post: questionable landlord practices
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- Cincinnati, OH
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Tim, I've done all of those things as a landlord and all her requests are reasonable. I especially hate missed dog poop and when tenants claim to be handy and "fix" stuff in a horrible way and I have to fix it again to undo the mess they made.
Post: Overweight tenants - Wax ring issue
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- Cincinnati, OH
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Originally posted by @James DeRoest:
Originally posted by @Terri Mccullough:
I'm having the same issue with my tenants and the toilet leaking. We have replaced the toilet 2x most recently abut a month ago. They have called 3x already saying it's leaking again.
Is the tenant overweight? If it is, then the toilet leaking is their bill to pay.
What obese people do, and I was told this by my plumber whilst repairing one of ours that had an overweight tenant, the tenant will sit on the toilet and to pass waste they literally rock themselves back and forth, moving their not inconsiderable gut around at the same time. Which in turn busts up the toilet and/or the wax ring.
My tenants were sufficient in size and weight not just to break the wax ring seal but managed to break the bottom of the toilet off as well. Heavens only knows the psi that the carriage bolts lived through.
There is a solution though; buy a bigger and more expensive toilet. The aqua source $99 toilet from Lowe's seems to do the job. So far.
Oh and tell the tenant that the next breakage is on them.
No.
This thread has some great accurate replies and also hearsay from others who say "my plumber handy man said..". If you don't know, don't reply.
A well installed toilet with a good closet ring with support an enormous person. There are a lot of ways a toilet can leak so it's hard to give advice without looking at it. The height of the closet ring and the condition of it are very important factors.
Post: Is a Landlord required to provide a mailbox in multifamily units?
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- Cincinnati, OH
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- Votes 120
Of course you should provide a mailbox. Almost every landlord pays for their mailbox, but I've seen a case where the post office provided one free of charge (I'm not sure how that happened).
Post: Electric Socket Cover Missing.. Who's responsibility?
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- Cincinnati, OH
- Posts 374
- Votes 120
Need more info. Is this a house or apt?
Post: I find the BP Podcasts to be fairly useless
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- Cincinnati, OH
- Posts 374
- Votes 120
Originally posted by @Timothy W.:
"The podcasts seem to be geared to the high school dropout who isn't motivated enough to get up off the couch. Why??" Maybe just to illustrate that if this loser can do it, so can you. It's a good sales pitch when a highly trained ape can be successful at a system so I'm sure that's part of it. Technically it doesn't take anything beyond 3rd grade math to analyze cash flow or flips. Beyond that it really just takes balls, not screwing up too much, experience and hiring the right professional team.
Well I do agree it's geared towards highly trained (non-motivated) apes :)
Post: Purchasing a rental while eviction is taking place
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- Cincinnati, OH
- Posts 374
- Votes 120
Buying the building is the elephant and the tenant issue is the flea. Work with the seller to fix the tenant issue but I wouldn't let it throw the whole deal off the tracks. You can always evict them on your own after the closing.
Post: Problem with dumpster in Phoenix
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- Cincinnati, OH
- Posts 374
- Votes 120
Normally you will see repeat dumpers so "go nuts" if you catch them in the act. You can install a camera. Other than that, it's tough to stop.