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Renting: Tenant, landlord disagree on damages
I am a landlord, and I had a tenant move out of my duplex last month. I sent her a detailed document listing the damages I felt occurred. But she completely disagrees with my
Read More »How Bad Tenants Find New Landlords
Talk to any group of landlords and you’re bound to hear horror stories about professional tenants who rip off one landlord after another, leaving behind a trail of trashed rentals and serious financial losses. How
Read More »Landlords cost alert to tenants going bust
A LEGAL firm has warned that hundreds of commercial landlords across Cumbria could be left counting the cost if their tenants go bust. Experts at Carlisle-based solicitors Cartmell Shepherd say landlords must take steps to
Read More »The Importance of Reference Checks During Tenant Screening
You know what you’re supposed to do after you receive a prospective renter’s application for your rental property: perform a thorough and consistent tenant screening. Some of you may be rolling your eyes or
Read More »Angry Evicted Tenant Takes Oven and Refrigerator to Even the Score
Here are a few of the crimes that have occurred in the City of Hazelwood throughout the past few weeks. Hazelwood Patch attained the accounts from the Hazelwood Police Department.
Read More »How to Spot an Ideal Tenant
Have you ever had an idea tenant? Would you be able to spot another one if he or she submitted a rental application? Keep in mind we’re not talking literally here. Appearances mean nothing
Read More »How to Run a Credit Check on a Potential Tenant – For Landlords
As a landlord, your primary responsibility is to find stellar tenants to occupy the property – tenants who pay the rent and take care of their rented home as if it were their own.
Read More »Should landlords be penalized for tenants’ crimes?
Cedar Rapids officials are making a new push to identify nuisance rental properties — including those at or near where crimes take place — and to put in place a mechanism that can assess
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