Handling interactions with a tenant in Sovereign Village
One of the primary services that your property manager in Sovereign Village performs is providing a level of separation between the tenant and the landlord. The best practice is for the landlord to deny any direct contact with the renter. Important advice for rental investors: never share your contact information with the renter.
Renters in Sovereign Village often ask to bend lease provisions, or ask for other special requests. The property management expert knows the rules and knows why the lease provisions are there in the first place. A renter can ambush an uniformed property owner at a moment of ignorance causing the property owner to grant a request that is counter to the landlord's own interests.
The consequence of acceding to what appears to be simple favor can be disastrous. Furthermore, once the tenant believes there is an opportunity to appeal, the renter will take all matters to the owner, 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 renter can hound or harass a property owner at unreasonable hours or with various requests.
We're paid to be your defend the landlord's interests. It's harder to do that job when the renter is going to ask the property owner to overrule our work.
Landlord Reference
a handy reference for rental investors in Sovereign Village
- Before you put a renter in your property in Sovereign Village
- Collections and evictions
- Communications with the tenant
- During tenancy
- End of tenancy and what happens when a tenant breaks the lease
- How does the owner get paid?
- How your rental manager handles the association and your community
- How your rental manager handles utilities
- How Nesbitt Realty & Management finds tenants
- Insurance matters for owners using our rental management
- How Nesbitt Realty & Management manage keys
- Sovereign Village property owner responsibilities
- Maintenance, repairs & inspections for your rental property in Sovereign Village
- The move-in inspection
- Property management information form
- Selling a 1031 tax exchange & more
- Starting our management of your property
- When property owners don't yet know their new address
- Vetting renters in Sovereign Village