All Forum Posts by: Will C.

@Ani Kap

Do you have a sledgehammer?

@Derrick E.

Do you or anyone else on this thread using this method charge a little extra in rent for being flexible? I've thought about this and would think you can bump up the total monthly income by X dollars because you are offering a alternate payment schedule. In essence, still lowering the rent payment for the tenant but collecting more in the long run.

@Remington Lyman

Craziness aside and maybe I didn't follow your timeline exactly but why is there a difference in market rents between the units? Do they differ in bedroom numbers? Unit 4 you say is $1200 but the others are $920? And how did you renovate with a inherited tenant still occupying the unit?

Playing the devil's advocate, reading and imagining your tenants experience: "I just had too put up with living through a remodel and now this Ahole landlord wants to charge me $200+ more dollars than the other units, yeah right...walks to abc store".

@Patrick Snyder

Check out Wyze cameras! Very inexpensive and they set up in minutes.

@Mindy Bowden

Not to mention slippery

@Ani Kap

Also, I would just carpet the bedrooms. Will be cheaper in the long run. Refinish if you plan to sell.

@Account Closed this quote seems high for me in Richmond Va. LVP should be about ~$2 sqft to install by flooring company (cheaper for handyman) plus whatever it costs to buy. So for example using the item# in quote, your living room/hallway should be $1400-1500 material+install, little more added to demo. They make shoe molding that already matches the LVP so not sure why they would be staining shoe, seems unnecessary for a rental?? I think the hardwood refinishing is about 1K too heavy too. Look on groupon for deals, I caught a refinishing deal once where three bedrooms cost a total of $900 to sand and refinish with 2 coats poly. 2 coats is a little slim but hey its a rental.

@Bernard Sims

That I can't comment on. I would imagine with a tenant already in place they would not raise the voucher. That should probably have been done before securing a tenant.

@Bernard Sims

Assuming the bedroom is up to code and your not selling at this point, why alert the officials and possibly get a new tax assessment = higher taxes.

@Kyle Galloway

Ask a realtor friend to grant you guest access to MLS. You can't see all the private agent notes and some extra details but you can search and filter properties. Nice middle ground.