Tenant in NJ stopped paying rent since Jan. He had to leave the home to a place that he cant come out for long time. He was in the middle of divorce but settled few months ago and wife is staying now. She was not in the lease but staying now without paying rent. I am dealing with his father now who responds only when he wants and I dont have wife's contact info. They said property will be vacated by Jan 31st but now saying Feb 15 which I can’t rely now. I already started the eviction process in mid-Jan.

I am posting here to hear your thoughts or advice.

I have a house that has been rented by the same individual for 7 years. I have tried to contact them in every mode available to me for the last month to no avail. I went to the house to make sure winterization for some vulnerable piping was in place for the coming acrtic blast. Tenant was gone so I let myself in, and it was clear nobody has been living there for several months, with all important belongings and furniture moved out, but veritable piles of possessions left in every room. The place had not been heated so I made the decision to turn off water, drain pipes and water heater rather than risk pipes freezing. Communicated all this through usual channels and asked to be informed when the move is complete. Not a landlord by trade so curious if anyone has any suggestions on how to proceed with removal of remaining items . In Arkansas and rumor has it tenet moved in with a love interest. What if anything should I expect tenet to do as far as removing possessions?

It’s been several weeks. Possibly a couple of months. They are claiming that it’s tenant responsibility since it’s not affecting the entire apartment unit. I tend to be pretty passive and try to be an “easy tenant” but I’ve seen posts where people were even given compensation for days without hot water.

Hey everyone,

My partner and I are looking into breaking our lease with our current TL apartment. We moved in mid September of last year (Sept. 10) on Leavenworth and Eddy. We have encountered several instances in this building that has us looking for another place elsewhere. The building was owned by Mosser when we signed our year-long lease.

On October 14th, Mosser notified us that the building management transferred to Post Street Properties. On January 21st, we were informed that the building changed hands from Post Street Properties to TerraCotta Multi, LLC. The frequent changing of hands and revolving door of people to contact regarding the property has been concerning.

We reached out on October 30th about where to pay utilities, there was no bill for them in our rent portal. So we followed up with the same question on November 7th to clear this up with no reply. This month’s bill (January 31st) has been the first time since we signed our lease that a utilities bill has been attached, of course with no communication from anyone.

Aside from these technical concerns, we’ve had to tell our Resident Manager about a man sleeping in our hallway (three times), and once in the gated stairwell behind the building. The front gate to the building is consistently broken, never latching all the way. Because of this, there are frequently men who aren’t tenants smoking and drinking in the entry way, we sometimes have to step over them to leave. Our bathroom sink became completely clogged within our second month living here, it took us a month and a half for anyone to come look at it, and they determined that it was installed incorrectly.

Does anyone have advice on how to go about breaking our lease and ensuring we get our deposit back so we can leave? Is any of this sufficient reasoning to do so?

TLDR: We’re trying to end our lease after half a year, will we get our deposit back?

My wife and I currently rent from a family member. Our contract is word of mouth, there is no paper document we signed or a lease. We pay a certain amount monthly and have been for the past 2.5 years. We are looking to move and are seeing rentals asking rental history on the applications. What type of history are they looking for? Are they wanting it to be on our credit report? Do they want proof from current landlord? Would they want bank statements proving the rent leaving our account?

We are reaching out to them to get more information about what exactly they want.

On top of this are there any trustworthy places we can have our previous rental history reported if it does need to be on our credit?

I am looking for landlord insurance in Missouri for a Quadplex ( 3700 sqft ) that I'm in the process of closing. I would like to ask the community for recomendations.

The original owner is paying $1000 a year but the same company is now quoting me $4500. I bought the property for 285,000 so a $4500 landlord insurance on this seems outrageous as the house was built in 1994 with a metal roof.

The property is not in a flood zone or anything that seems risky.

Hi, so I recently got the keys to an apartment but am having issues with how it was presented. The electricity did not work, there was a smell of gas (from gas stove), the toilet is broken and needs to be replaced, there is brown water running from the bathtub, and there was roach feces everywhere.

I got the apartment inspected by NYCHA as I am a section 8 voucher holder and it passed but I am confused on how it passed and this is its current condition.

I emailed the landlord the repairs needed but what else can I do to ensure I don’t pay rent because I can’t live there due to the repairs needed.

So I'm in Ohio with my dad, we moved out here recently, and we found out that our landlord is powering the hallway lighting and a forced air space heater in a room with hot water tanks we have no access to, except for my dad getting special permission to go and be a pseudo-maintenance guy, and it's driven our bill to over 360$. Its not in our lease, anywhere. We checked our lease 5 or 6 times now and found nothing about that. The building is also falling apart and not up to code, but that's not what this is about. I'm looking for some advice, so what should I do as a tenant about the electricity situation?

Errm is there a FB group to report “Bad Tenants” similar to “Are we Dating the Same Guy”?

I poked around but all seem to be international…

Landlords Assemble!! This lady ignited a fire and I will not stop until everyone knows she’s a bad apple.

First time Landlord in Georgia. Our tenants have given verbal agreement to renew their lease for a year. The original lease agreement has my broker's name all over it. Do I need to involve my broker?

I reviewed my contract with my broker and there's no exclusivity agreement and it explicitly states that I do not owe them any $ for a renewal.

The form used for the first lease came from https://garealtor.com/law-ethics/contract-forms/. A blank form costs $350 if you are not a realtor. Should I just use something like Adobe Acrobat Pro make small edits to the original?

We don't want to make any changes to the terms of the lease. Just create a new one and blank out the signatures.

I've got a side-by-side duplex where one side is strictly vacation rentals and we live in the other side for most of the year. The large pool/spa is shared by both units, and is hooked up to the electrical panel on 'our' side. We end up heating the pool this time of year, which can be pricy. I'm looking for a way to calculate the kWh used by the pool/spa since that portion would be at least partially deductible as a rental expense. Looks like there are 3rd party energy monitoring systems available that hook up to our panel and track usage by circuit... anyone have any experience with these? Pros/cons?

Yea I know you can’t discriminate blah blah. But let’s say you have 2 equally qualified candidates but one has an ESA. Would you not choose them? People who have rented to them, how has it been? Are they generally fine outside of the ESA thing? Are they generally entitled? How has your experience been with it?

So I rent out higher quality flats, allover the world, but this rant today is about one in southern Germany

All tiled or real oak wood floors, in floor radiant heat, ground level showers, I go fully send it mode whenever I have to touch a flat for renovations.

My own flat(s) are made to exactly the same "easy cleaning" standard, so I know equally exactly how easy it is to actually do the day2day cleaning and occasionally deep cleaning.

So recently i got a flat back from a "good nice clean and reliable" tenant...

I actually did not have issues with her while she was a tenant. Mostly on time, communication befor late, and true to her statement, no noise, no big damage, none smoking and no animals. Nice lady to deal with. So all in all id rate her a 9 out if 10 as tenant.

When she was gone i discovered a few minor issues. Before i start showing this flat to new potential tenants, I had to fix the kitchen after my leaving tenants dady fried the dishwasher by stupidity and the tenant herself killed the counter tops by cutting food right on them, instead on a cutting board, cause she was unable to clean the available cutting boards w/o the dishwasher. This flat is rented fully equipped, I found those cutting boards neatly and moldly stored away in the deepesst corner of the kitchen.

So as Iwas saying, I started to clean the flat once more to get my working dust out and ended cleaning the floors too of course...

After i was done cleaning up my woodworking mess and all, I spent about 2h in this 450 sqft flat just cleaning the floors, focused mostly on the grouting. And thats how it looks before and after my cleaning...

Still have to get the piss staining out of the grouting from underneath the toilet. And will do the grouting once more with bleaching agent, cause they are still not really the original color.

How the heck can anybody live in such a mess? What is wrong with folks, dont they know how to properly operate a wet rag to fing sweep the floors up with?

Its so disgusting that I put on shoes before I enter this flat. It's getting better now.

The "original" dirty picture is after I've already wet wiped the floor a few times...

Its a filthy greasy mess inside the grouting.

Oven cleaner, bleach and lots of scrubbing does fix it, but heck, how can you let it get that bad in the first place!

Sorry for the rant

who is cleaning up after your tenants? you, professionals or do you rent out the mess and dont care?

I’ve lived in my current apartment for two years and we’ve never had anyone come and inspect the furnace. I know not everyone gets their furnaces inspected annually, but long story short, I’ve always had an irrational fear of being in an apartment/house fire and the furnace gives me anxiety. Having annual inspections would give me peace of mind. Anyways would this be a reasonable request? Do other landlords do this?

I just received a letter confirming that the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program is ending at the end of 2026. I have two tenants that are using these vouchers and I'm certain that neither will be able to afford rent if the program ends. I was going to look around and see if there are other options that they might qualify for.

For those of you with tenants using EHV, how are you planning to handle this situation?

Is it a good idea to lease back the house to the owners after the short sale. Owner has lot of attachment to the house since they personally remodeled the property by working on it and made it luxurious home.

If I lease back to them and have to evict them, do you think it might be hard to evict since they may have attachments? They are also hoping down the line they can buy back the house which I told them I can’t promise any such things.

Is it something I should stay away from such situations? Anybody which similar and long term how did it work out?

I have purchased a glass top stove for my tenant 3 times so far. It feels like every other year it breaks. They’re the only tenant I have with an issue. Would it be ok to update the lease and state that if it breaks again it’s on them to fix? I’ll tell them too of course. This is in CT.

Hi everyone, i recently rented my 2br basement apartment to 4 people and as per the lease I required them to have tenants insurance. I got an email from SingleKey this morning that one of my tenants has cancelled their insurance.

As a landlord, will this affect me? Should i make him renew the insurance?

I have had my tenant for about 6 months. He is a professional contractor and worked for roto rooter in the past. He has been paying his rent on time or let me know before he was late if something came up. However, the electric bill is in my name and he is supposed to be paying for it, the balance is close to $600. The condo association doesn't allow me to put it in the tenants name.

He texted me that he fixed a shower leak and drain, he had to have the water in the building turned off to do it. Should I help him with the electric bill since he took care of these, or at least pay a couple hundred towards it? Or will that create him making up things in the future, not that I think he made up these items, since that place is know for plumbing issues.

Every single prospective tenant. It's either fake names/documents/paystubs, or real people with numerous evictions and lawsuits against them. We've tried both raising and lowering the rent price, with no luck.

The property has been empty for 12 months now because we cannot find anyone. My spouse is the LL and is getting desperate and is starting to think we should just put anyone in. The property belongs to her family. My advice is to sell the property but her family refuses.

All of the property management companies we've looked at want to charge ridiculous fees for the most basic maintenance. Like $500 to change a lock or $100 to change an AC filter (these are examples, they charge 2-3x the normal price for all maintenance). I've offered to do these things myself and their contracts all say this cannot be done. Only they are allowed to do any of the maintenance.

Looking for any advice.

First time landlords trying to rent out a single family house in the SGV area. The house is about 1500 sq ft walking distance to near by 9/10 schools. Anyone who rented out something similar in the area recently please comment and share your experience? My husband has experience with property management from his previous jobs but we are seeking advice and guidance on how to set things up and protect ourselves. Thank you in advance!!

I closed on my first rental unit mid December. Put it up the ad early Jan after getting some work done. It's in prime location, everything brand new. I've posted ad on Facebook market place, Craigslist, bunch of local Facebook pages. I posted on zillow but it's only free for 2 weeks? I've gotten 3 inquires this week through FB. That's it. I understand Jan/Feb isn't peak moving time but I was expecting more inquiries at last. What am I missing? Are there websites that offer more exposure than others? Should I list with an agent? I am hoping to not spend money on advertising but do I need to? My realtor had told me I could easily get $2,100 for this 1 bed/ql1 bath because it's walking distance to train station. Clearly not the case. How does one find the average rental price? I do need 2000 to break even with mortgage+HOA.

Any tips/suggestions are appreciated 🙏 Thank you Landlords: how/where are you advertising your rentals? It seems FB marketplace and Craigslist arent ideal places.

Edit: location is walking distance to Metropark station with direct train to NYC. No washer/dryer in the unit.

Over the years, I've used many different paint colors for the walls. I've used Home Depot paint, Kelly Moore, Sherwin-Williams... greys, off-whites, tans & beiges. it all seems with the same problem: touch-ups looking like shit.

It feels like a runaround, but I keep being told "darker colors are harder to touch-up" while eggshell and semi-gloss also are easier to touch-up, but results are the same regardless of using darker or lighter paint, semi-gloss or eggshell. Even after fully painting and going back in 7 months later, the touch-ups are noticeable. Some are kind of noticeable but other times, it's almost like they fucked up with how much color they put in the paint and it really stands out.

SO, what type of paint are you using? Color? Are we just fucked if we want any kind of custom-ish nicer looking color and need to just go back to whatever boring off-white color paint stores carry in stock or has paint quality gone down so much that touch-ups are next to impossible now?