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10 Property Management Mistakes You Never
Want to Make
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When I started buying rental properties, I made a lot of mistakes as a Property Manager. Here are some of the most common and
irritating ones, in no particular order.
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1. Not Screening Tenants
You should always do some kind of background check on your tenants. A bad tenant is worse that no tenant.
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2. Not Maintaining Your Property
If you let your property get run down, you will attract bad tenants who will run
it down even more.
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3. Letting Your Tenants Pay Late
Don’t let you tenants pay late. I start the eviction process that day the rent payment is returned or late. Don’t get
emotionally involved.
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4. Not Having a Lease in Place.
Make sure you always have a lease with your tenant that describes all the
terms and conditions.
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5. Not Collecting a Deposit
You need some kind of upfront commitment from your tenants. Make
sure you get cash, certified cheque and that the cheque clears before you hand
over the keys.
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6. Not Getting Post-Dated Cheques
Make sure you have post dated cheques for the duration of the lease or that you have some form of electronic
payment system in place.
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7. Not Having the Utilities Switched
Make sure the utilities have been switched over to the new tenant prior to
turning over the keys to them. Don’t offer to keep the utilities in your name
and then have the tenant pay you.
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8. Making Friends With Your Tenants
If you develop a personal relationship with your tenants it will be harder to evict them or treat them as “tenants”
because you are emotionally involved.
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9. Allowing Animals
I have too many bad news stories that involve pet damage and noise related
problems due to pets. They can be expensive to cleanup after.
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10. Being Too Nice.
I have lost a lot of money trying to be understanding about a
tenant’s “difficult” situation. A lot of the reasons are made up.
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