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When You See Things Tenants Don’t Want You to See
Landlords and property managers have the right to enter their properties, with proper notice to their tenants. Whether it’s for routine maintenance work, pest treatments or safety inspections, it’s not only necessary to occasionally
Read More »5 Signs That Your Tenant is Dealing Drugs
Drug-dealing tenants can be the downfall of any landlord. You risk lawsuits, criminal liability, property seizure, astronomical clean-up costs, plus federal, state and local fines. We all read about the horror stories of rental-property
Read More »Landlord Arrested For Finding Tenant’s Drug Stash And Reporting It To Cops
File this under “No good deed goes unpunished.” REX, Ga. —A man and his wife were arrested after telling police about drugs they found in a rental property they own.
Read More »West LA man allegedly kills landlord in apparent murder-suicide
Police say a dispute between a tenant and his landlord led to an apparent murder-suicide in West Los Angeles. Police were called to the 2400 block of Colby Avenue just after midnight Saturday where they
Read More »How to Prevent Common Landlord Liabilities
There are a number of conditions on a rental property that can increase a landlord’s risk of income loss. Landlords have a duty to prevent injuries in and around their rentals.
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 »Tenant Screening is Changing-What Landlords Need to Know
The economy is struggling and anyone in business is doing their best to get customers to patronize them. This also holds true for landlords. Many people are finding it hard to rent apartments because
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.
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