All Forum Posts by: Swathi Vijayakumar

Thank you Scott. I'm in California.

Hi All

I'm looking for advice on how to deal with a tenant that won't acknowledge communication regarding late fees and missed payments. We've tried email, phone, text and even certified mail. There have been multiple attempts made to deliver certified mail but never successfully delivered. The Tenant won't pay rent on time, bills on time and refuses to pay any late fees. With not having confirmation on certified mail being delivered, how would we move forward with pay or quit notices or eviction notices?

Can anyone suggest reliable resources for California Tenancy laws.  I definitely find stuff when I do a Google search.  The problem I have is I never know which ones are reliable. I tend to use NOLO usually to find info . Does anyone have input on their reliability? Also any recommendations of other resources will be helpful?

https://www.nolo.com/legal-enc... 

Thank you!

Thank you Nathan. That'll definitely be a lesson learned for next time. I definitely made a mistake not getting their license and insurance information prior to hiring them. I naively assumed that since they had good reviews on yelp they were fine. Plus I had used them for fence work on my house and they were very professional and timely.  I still should have done my hw rather than just trusting blindly.   

Thanks everyone for the great suggestions. This rental is out in California and some counties are under rent control while others aren't. On top of that some cities have their own rules.  That's why this is so confusing for me.  With that said as per Zillow  the rents in the area are about $200 per month higher than what we are currently charging them. 

Hi I'm a new landlord trying to navigate through this process. I'm about to go through a lease renewal for one of my tenants. I know rents in the area have gone up. In the past I've just used Zillow to determine what fair rent is. Are there any resources that I can use to determine how much I can increase my current tenants rent? I know there are rules based on County. 

Thank You!

Thank You Jonathan. We actually do have something in the lease that states that. 

I'm wondering is we can take any action against the fencing company on our end. To start with they took longer than their original estimate on finishing the job. On top of that even though we were following up with them on an update they weren't responsive. Then they just showed up one day started the staining without any prior notice or checkin. 

I was looking into reporting them to the Better Business Bureau. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with that. Would  there be any value in taking that route?  

Hi 

We recently got some fence work done on a rental property. We found the fencing company before and loved them so we used them for this property. One of the workers from the fencing company accidentally got stain on the tenants truck and motorcycle. The truck is a rental through enterprise so we decided to let enterprise handle it. For the motorcycle our tenant is indicating that it's a custom denim paint and will cost anywhere between $5k to $7K to fix. He indicated he will file a claim with his insurance company for the bike.

When this initially happened the fencing company owner gave us his insurance but after trying to file a claim we realized it's worker's comp only. Since then the fencing company is being very flaky and refusing to give us their insurance information. 

My question is who is responsible for this incident? Do we have any recourse against the fencing company other than leaving a bad yelp review?