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Do you monitor the property or the new tenants in any way?
 
If a tenant is on time with rent and we don't have any neighbor / HOA complaints we drive past our properties when we are in the area to check for any points of concern. If there are warning flags we call the tenant, express our concerns and if there is a high level of concern inspect the property under the pretense of checking for repair needs.
 
When possible we give business cards to the neighbors and ask them to call if they see something that concerns them. While we can't be at every property everyday the neighbors are.
 
Given that the Alabama tenant landlord law is heavily weighted in favor of the tenant, the landlord's only two points of strength are screening tenants and to a lesser degree the security deposit. Our staff of 8 manages almost 400 properties and have remarkably few evictions. Discounting properties that have bad tenants in place when we begin to manage them and the few low income properties we manage, we have to take legal action only once or twice a year.
 
If a tenant doesn't pay by the 5th of the month without notification, what do you do?
 
Even if they provide notification they receive a late notice that serves the legal requirements of an eviction notice in the event that we have to take legal action.
We use Sarah Taggart the local authority on tenant landlord law for both our evictions and for counsel. She has streamlined the process and cut 1 - 2 weeks off the tiem it takes to get a tenant out. It takes anywhere from 30 to 60 days unless the tenant appeals the eviction.
 
In general tenants leave when they recive the eviction notice from the court. In my career we have been to court only a handful of times. Generally the tenant doesn't show up and we receive a default judgment. I have had one case on a low income property where Legal Aid threatened an appeal to extort us and one other case where the tenant actualy appealed the eviction but then moved.
 
Again the key is screening on the front end.
Posted by Philip Winburn on June 16th, 2011 7:52 AMPost a Comment (0)
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