Re: Tenant & Lawn Care - Landlord Forum thread 228733

Re: Tenant & Lawn Care by Jo (Florida) on July 16, 2011 @15:18

Excellent article! Our property in Florida used to have nice plants and nice healthy lawn for years with a working sprinkler system. However, after a problem tenant moved in, our St. Augustine grass didn't get regularly sprinkled during the dry seasons in Florida and had totally died out down to sparse weeds and bare ground. Unfortunately, out FL property management company changed personnel and did not monitor or ever report any problems, nor did neighbors ever complain to us (we live 1500 miles away). The tenants were also parking on the front lawn instead of using our driveway for parking....yeah, parking over our sprinkler heads. (5 years later, we evicted this tenant for damaging our entire lawn and gardens, removal of all our carpeting without our knowledge, having illegal animals....after driving down to visit the house ourselves.) What was our FL Property Manager doing? Only collecting the rent, nothing much else. Consequently we suffered thousands $ in damages. As your article suggested, we will be closely following your advise in the future. Thanks for all the good tips.

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Re: Tenant & Lawn Care by Delange (CO) on July 14, 2015 @16:03	[ Reply ]

As an owner what did you do to the property mangament company. As i stated in my response below. Our property management let some hack RUIN our yard. The House looks awful and we are so distraught about it. We have called the property managment and told them they should replace these bushes and shrubs that were destroyed. I'm tempted to write the owners and show them how badly htier property looks now .. IT's AWFUL. The reason they were called out was for a FEW low hagning tree limbs and over grown bushes. The job was too big for us and we called for help, being responsible adn now our house looks hideous. I kid you not.