I’m a landlord/homeowner in South East Los Angeles who has rented out my 3 bedroom 2 bath +den home to a single man and his cousins since 2010. I have a long-term tenant who maintains the property pretty clean and always pays his rent on time. I hadn’t entered the home since 2017. I’d moved to Hawaii, but recently returned and discovered that my tenant is renting out every bedroom plus the den to a different person and converted the dining room into an extra bedroom (5 adults total he also lives in one bedroom). His rent is going up 10% in May and I’m asking him for additional security deposi ..read more

I live near Portland OR and rent a house with 3 other women. We had pretty extreme weather this year (110 heat in late summer, and a historic ice storm in January) and one of our windows developed a large hairline crack. No idea when or how, we just noticed it one day in February and its been spreading. The landlords are claiming we must have slammed the window too hard and broke it. We are all petite women and I think that would be physically impossible honestly (the window is huge and tall). Research online shows that windows crack due to weather and pressure changes. The landlord is saying ..read more

So far, I've been doing everything by the book. I called the police and had them investigate the trailer, since I live a couple of towns away and couldn't simply drive over to southeast Portland to investigate what could theoretically be a meth lab. They informed me that there was nobody answering the door and that nobody in the area seemed to know where it came from, and advised me to call a tow truck. Sounds great, right? Hell, I even had my property manager tape a notice on the trailer door, stating intent to tow. Everything by the book, because nothing bad ever happens to you when you obe ..read more

I am posting this here to see if someone can help me know if there is anything to be done. My daughter lives in an apartment and had sent an email to the landlord about an issue and stated in the email "Please let me know what we need to do to proceed". The landlord sent over a maintenance worker to repair the item and the working just unlocked and opened the door. No knock or anything. She happened to be in bed and undressed, but what if she had been moving around the house or in the shower or whatever. Here is the information from the lease: When We May Enter*.If you or any other resident ..read more

Hi r/landlord, I'm dealing with an ongoing issue in my apartment where I hear multiple beeping sounds—like that of a smoke detector with a low battery—every 30 seconds, clearly coming from the unit below mine (where the super resides). After reaching out to him, he informed me that beeping is not coming from their apartment. Unfortunately, I have reason to believe he's lying because I can clearly hear the beeping coming from the floorboards. Anyone have any recommendations on what to do? My next step was to contact the management office, but I don't want that to fire back on me. Thanks in adv ..read more

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Property manager received a quote from a vendor asking for $95 to replace a single smoke detector in my property. Does this cost seem excessive? Or am I just being cheap and overly difficult? I am not local to the rental; otherwise I’d do it myself. submitted by /u/WhyYuDownVoteMe [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

So I'm not in the industry, I'm just an admin who collects rent or takes cares of repairs that are necessary for a condo unit as requested for my boss. Usually, I can take care of the simple things that our tenant needs. However, I'm in a weird spot right now. My tenant had an emergency which required firefighters to break down the door because she could not get up. Per the building, the cost to replace the door is upwards of $5,000. Is this something that the tenant would be held responsible? Do I just ask my boss to repair the door and file an insurance claim later? submitted by /u/Abbrevi ..read more

Hello! I rented a 2br upper half duplex for 3 years in Pittsburgh, and for the most part had no issues. The landlord and I were on decent terms, always paid early, if I had any maintenance issues, they were addressed. At the start of the year, the toilet that was in the basement started overflowing sewage. This wasn't a toilet that anyone used (basement was shared space, used for laundry and storage by me and the downstairs tenant). I called the landlord who got plumbers out same day and identified a block in the pipe. The plumbers said the block was caused by tampons and baby wipes, and indi ..read more

Is this a bad thing? Tenant of upper two-family flat has been great. Veteran, maybe 60F, on disability, pays timely, never complains. Not sure when exactly she left but for October inspection, she was in a southern state visiting family . . . and still is. She says she was in the hospital, this time might have COVID, etc. I put one of those leak notices on the unit so the water department notifies me of any large increase of water used. The winter was mild, so we got past the possibility of freezing pipes. Supposedly get son good in one a week to check things out. Is this a dream tenant or a ..read more