We asked our landlords, to identify some of the biggest mistakes their ex-property managers made.
There have been some massive blunders:
- Not putting repeat bad tenants on Bad Tenant Databases and other unsuspecting landlords inherit the problem tenants
- Letting tenants get too behind on payments, resulting in evictions that could have been avoided, with more effective early intervention.
- Rushing inspections and missing out on or overlooking critical issues, that have resulted in more expense for the landlord
- Not doing proper screening of tenants, which resulted in unscrupulous tenants, trashing and in some cases, destroying a landlords’ property
- Not managing a landlords’ expectations, or even doing a landlord induction at the start of the relationship
- Not returning calls and emails or taking property notes on inspections
- No handover process for the landlord when property managers leave and a new manager is appointed
- Not handling maintenance requests in a timely manner- making the issue bigger and causing damage to the property or sometimes, just hiring the wrong contractor.
- One property manager didn’t tell his landlord that the tenant was running a child care centre from the property- Oh Boy!!!
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Tenants can request all maintenance via the RealRenta platform and even upload photos and documents.
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