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Well, it’s birthday time again for Landlord-Success.com and I’m very pleased that we are quite well read and have a good following. It seems that I’m not the only person who has the occasional problem tenant and property maintenance nightmare.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the readers and more importantly the people who leave comments. They are what make this blog a vibrant and interesting community. I try to create readable content but the real experiences come from the readers who leave comments.

I was also thinking that a contest of some sort is in order for an occasion such as this.  I welcome your comments and suggestions about this. As far as prizes go, would you like to see the latest unnecessary gadget given away? Or maybe some kind of monetary award? Let me know and I’ll see what I can conjure up.

Thanks again everyone for reading Landlord-Success.com!

So this past week I had a sales representative from Sears (of all places) call me to ask my permission to come out to one of my rental properties to give the tenant an estimate to replace the central air-conditioning system in her unit.

Now, lets just pause a moment to think about this……

Ok, now. What in TARNATION is this tenant thinking?! I know she must obviously want a new air-conditioning system  but I don’t know how many tenants have a spare $2500 just lying around to pay for it. Well, it turns out that she wanted ME to pay for the replacement of course.  W-H-A-T-E-V-E-R  lady. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it’s been a whole month since these people moved in to one of my rentals and they have called me no less than 8 times to complain about things, great and small, that are wrong with the unit.

Granted, some of the complaints were valid and I fixed them promptly. The other things consisted of  a dead battery in the garage opener remote, minuscule cracks in the bathroom tile and non-working light bulbs.

What’s probably going on here is that they probably don’t want to be charged for things that are wrong with the unit when they move out, which is understandable but that’s what the move-in/move-out inspection is for. Before a tenant moves into a unit, I require them to walk through the unit with a checklist and note the condition of major things such as cracked tile, non-working appliances, etc. Read the rest of this entry »