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Re: acceptable time-frame for hvac repair? - Landlord Forum thread 222083

Re: acceptable time-frame for hvac repair? by Anonymous (CA) on April 23, 2011 @15:05

                              
Some state laws actually allow the landlord to require the tenant be responsible for the unit and thus pay repairs. But if you told the renters that the house has AC, then it's your responsibility to maintain it.

I guess it depends on the tenants (and the lease). If they're patient, they can wait until Tuesday. If, say, they have toddlers sensitive to lack of heat, they won't.

If you have a month-to-month and the tenants turn out to be "high maintenance", you can always bump up the rent to cover these costs. Conversely, you should have some sort of record or budget of how much you should spend for repairs et al., to see if the tenants are causing you to spend more money than you anticipated.

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Re: acceptable time-frame for hvac repair? by Jake on April 23, 2011 @17:00 [ Reply ]
"if you told the renters that the house has AC, then it's your responsibility to maintain it."

This is exactly the point. The tenant rented a place with air conditioning. It does not matter if the air conditioning is for comfort or that it is not required for habitability. It is a matter of giving the tenant what they paid for and not moving at the speed of a glacier to to it.


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