Re: Air Conditioners - Landlord Forum thread

Re: Air Conditioners by Anonymous on June 21, 2012 @11:44

Is there central air in the home?
What are the issues you have with window AC?

Is because you are worried about installation damage or is it an electrical issue?

If it's installation issues, have a conversation with the tenants. Mention that the lease doesn't allow for them without written consent and you would need to inspect how they were installed to make sure it was done correctly in an appropriate place for your home and plugged in properly (as in not in an outlet that already has a power strip with 5 other items plugged into it, etc).

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Re: Air Conditioners by Micah on June 21, 2012 @11:54	[ Reply ]

Don't forget to make sure the drain spout is open and not dripping on anything that it shouldn't. I had a tenant who bought a new window AC, didn't take out the plug and had water dripping into the apt all over the floor from the AC condenser.

Re: Air Conditioners by Anonymous (MA) on June 21, 2012 @12:07	[ Reply ]

Thank you everyone for your feedback. Each of the AC's drain spouts are dripping outside onto the pavement. One in the driveway, one near garbage cans and the other one dripping into my kitchen garden. Those green beans are going to be great this year :) I am going to add an addedum for the next tenant with some of your suggestions. Again, my apologies for venting on this forum. Since their parents were co-signors on the lease (college students) and their parents and the tenant presented themselves well at the lease signing, I thought I was getting respectable tenants. I think I am more mad at myself for not screening these folks better. The little things they now do get me upset. It's hard being a LL when you occupy the same property.

Re: Air Conditioners by Bunny MAGIC on June 21, 2012 @13:27	[ Reply ]

You may want to contact the co-signers (parents) and give them a heads up that the A/C units have to remain when their children move out and tell them why (IF your lease says that things affixed to the property become the property of the owner). A lot of the time, people (college students) just sign the lease and really don't remember or pay attention to the terms, and this might be the case here. College kids can be messy and not take care of things--after all, they don't own it and their parents will get them off the hook for anything owed. Their folks probably made the A/C purchase.

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