Handling interactions with a tenant in Sedgewick Heights
One of the important duties that a property management expert in Sedgewick Heights performs is providing a level of separation between the renter and the rental investor. The best practice is for the owner to deny any direct contact with the renter. Important tip for owners: avoid sharing your contact information with the renter.
Tenants in Sedgewick Heights often ask to bend lease provisions, or ask for other special requests. The property manager knows the rules and knows why the rules are there in the first place. A renter can ambush an uniformed landlord at a moment of ignorance causing the owner to grant a request that is against the owner's own interests.
The consequence of giving into a seemingly simple favor can be disastrous. Furthermore, once the renter knows there is an opportunity to appeal, the renter will take all matters to the rental investor, which cost the landlord time and effort.
Renters will use contact with the rental investor to build a personal relationship with the landlord. Personal feelings can make it much harder for the owner to make objective business decisions in a impersonal manner. Additionally, the tenant can hound or harass a landlord at strange hours or with crazy requests.
We're paid to be your defend the property owner's interests. It's harder to achieve that goal when the tenant is going to ask the property owner to overrule our work.
Landlord Reference
a useful archive for property owners in Sedgewick Heights
- Before you rent out your property in Sedgewick Heights
- Collections and evictions
- Communications with the tenant
- During tenancy
- End of lease term and what happens when a renter breaks the lease
- How does the rental investor get paid?
- How your property management company handles the association and your community
- How your management company handles utilities
- How Nesbitt Realty finds tenants
- Insurance matters for rental investors using our property management
- How Nesbitt Realty & Management manage keys
- Sedgewick Heights property owner responsibilities
- Maintenance, repairs & inspections for your property in Sedgewick Heights
- The move-in inspection
- Property management information form
- Selling a 1031 tax exchange & more
- Starting our management of your rental property
- When owners don't yet know their new address
- Vetting renters in Sedgewick Heights