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• December 1, 2006 / 0 Comments

  Q & A: Let Tenant Manage Property?

  Q: I bought a four-plex in Kansas City last winter to help my brother out. He was to manage them and live in one. That did not work out and I had to hire a management company. When I bought them it was 100% rented. In July I lost two tenants, one due to bad […]

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• November 1, 2006 / 0 Comments

  Q & A: Tenant won’t be getting full security deposit back, tell him now or later?

  Q: We have a triplex and have a tenant who broke a fiberglass tub. I want to know do I have to inform him now, before he moves out that I am taking it out if his deposit, or can I inform him when he moves out with copies of the repair bills? I cannot […]

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• November 1, 2006 / 0 Comments

  Lease expiring, no rent from tenant

  Q: Our rental agreement with our renter is up on November 21st. Beginning October 1 we started communicating verbally with our renter regarding the extension of his lease. It is now November 6th and he not only has not contacted us regarding extending his lease, but he has not paid his last month’s rent that […]

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• November 1, 2006 / 0 Comments

  Q & A: Can a tenant stop me from hiring a property manager?

  Q: I have a tenant who leases a home from me in Florida that is refusing to let me transfer management of the property to a property manager. I do not have the time or health to continue to manage the property and want to hire a prop¬erty manager as my Agent for the bal¬ance […]

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• August 1, 2006 / 0 Comments

  Q & A: Tenant didn’t do work as promised

  Q: When I rented my house to a family I gave them $50 a month out of the rent for the upkeep of my property. Nothing was ever done with the money. I raised the rent and they moved out leaving a terrible mess inside and out. They ripped all the carpet out of the […]

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