Dealing with tenant who trashed apartment
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2024
- I posted a video a few days ago that was basically just a walk through of an apartment to show how it had been left after a move out. I posted it to tease this video. The walkthrough video can be found here: • Apartment trashed in u...
Real estate investing is great. I love it because I get to fix up a lot of neglected properties, rent them to good people, enjoy immensely more freedom of time than I had at my old engineering job, all while making wayyy more money. I also interact with a much wider cross section of society than most ever get to on a regular basis and I really enjoy that.
The downside; however, is that there are traps that you can run into that can set you back or slow your progress. Allowing the wrong tenant into one of your units is definitely one of those traps. Scaling requires change and sometimes a bit of experimentation is involved. In this case, I experimented with delegating my tenant screening and the outcome, unfortunately, was a setback. I ended up with a roughed-up apartment, and more importantly, wasted time.
This video overviews the whole experience from start to finish. Hopefully it can serve as a lesson that you learn vicariously through me if you're in the real estate business, or as entertainment and a new perspective if you're not. May you never have to deal with a trashed apartment!
I overview how to screen tenants, what my tenant screening criteria is, and the reason why it was not applied in this situation. Screening section 8 tenants is a bit different and I overview what matters for them to be good tenants as well.
In any case, I hope you enjoy!
I think you handled this fantastically well. And I’m glad you showed the unit after cleanup.
Thanks! And yeah, doing my best to get it back online fast.
Wow you handled that so well and you were more than generous! You’ll be blessed with another good tenant really soon if not already! Thank you for sharing for us future landlord hopefuls.
Thank you, I value the feedback!
Loved how you handled the problem!
Thanks!
OMG 😮 those poor kids 💔. They don’t deserve to have a POS mom like that.
I commend you for how well you handled this situation.
For sure. I hope some positive influences find their way into those kids lives.
Delegating was definitely not the issue. You handled it like a pro though. In the end, research the property management agency as if, if not more closely, than a renter.
Keep up the good work. Slight set backs and lessons are common amd your a great guy with a great mind.
Cheers.
Thanks for the feedback, Nate! And yeah, can't get bogged down with little setbacks. Gotta keep pushing forward!
Thumbs up video - very clear and good quality video. More video of the apartment would have been some spice on the meat. Keep up the good stuff it's very informative.
Thanks, appreciate the feedback! I actually did another video that just included the walkthrough of the apartment post move out. You can check that out if you're curious.