Re: Air Conditioners - Landlord Forum thread

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

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.

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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.

Re: Air Conditioners by Anonymous (MA) on June 21, 2012 @14:45	[ Reply ]

Bunny MAGIC - I don't have a clause in the lease that states that anything affixed to the property becomes the property of the owner. This is the second time I rented to college students. The first were a couple going for their Masters. The Masters student's took paid on time and care great care of the property. The tenants I have now, two are undergrads and the other tenant is the boyfriend of one of them. All three of them are on the lease as "jointly and severally". I took a ton of pics before they moved in and have documented every conversation I had with them and maintenance reuqests. Also, the parents of one of the students did a walk through when they moved in. We threatened them with eviction in Jan. The lease violation stopped immediately. They know that my wife & I are unhappy with them. I wouldn't live some place I am not wanted. At first I was worried because I have read stories about tenants claiming hardhsip and unable to move some place else. I checked Craiglist and there a ton of apts in my area or the surrounding area that is either cheaper than what they're paying or is much better looking than my apartment. They better not use that tatic. Because each of their parent's make six figures, parents pay for ALL the utilities and their education. Boyfriend just got a job this month after being unemployed for 10 months. I would like to see them try to convince a judge that they are claiming hardship and can't move.

Re: Air Conditioners by Tabby (GA) on June 21, 2012 @15:08	[ Reply ]

Do they know that you are not going to renew the lease yet? You should let them know sooner rather than later.....don't know what the state law is in MA. Big maturity difference between grad and undergrads. I wouldn't fight over the AC units personally if they bought them. I grew up in MA so I know.....the climate used to be such that you only really needed AC a week or so in the summer. When I moved south my car didn't have one either. In GA I can't imagine being without. Good luck.

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