Re: Help!! Tenant stole property! - Landlord Forum thread 350256

Re: Help!! Tenant stole property! by Joel on January 21, 2017 @10:38

Sorry G, I have to respectfully disagree with you.

The LPA Lease is state specific and has the correct language to make tenants responsible for the appliances that may be left for the "tenant's convenience only".
Why don't you read about it on the LPA website?

I can tell from your postings that although you enjoy the free forum, you are not an LPA Member. Am I correct?
The LPA Lease is not a large investment.

You may want to watch John's video about the appliances clause... https://www.thelpa.com/lpa/videos.html

[ Reply ] [ Return to forum ]

Re: Help!! Tenant stole property! by Garry on January 21, 2017 @12:28	[ Reply ]

You are correct that I am not an LPA member, but I thank them profusely for allowing me to be part of their free forum for non-members. I feel that my answers to many questions the past 2 years, have been a benefit to many LLs and Ts alike, and wish people such as yourself would come on the forum more often to offer your help and opinions. I am from Iowa, and am part of a local and state LLs group that teaches other LLs about all kinds of laws regarding LLs and Ts. We , locally, hold monthly meetings once a month, where we may bring in a judge, an attorney, someone from the city housing inspections dept, a civil rights person, someone from the Sheriffs, Sec 8, or police dept, etc, to update us on current laws, and all things regarding our business of landlording. At our state level, we hire a lobbyist to represent landlord interests in our state legislature. Then, every 1-2 years, we have an attorney re-make any forms, including leases, with up-to-date language that will conform to out state's LL/T laws. I can tell you, that if the particular clause we have been discussing about appliances, was put into an Iowa lease like was suggested, Not only would that clause be thrown out by any judge in the state, but it's a possibility (because of new wording last summer about items in a lease) that a judge, at his discression, can throw out the WHOLE lease. So, Randi, thank you for your opinion, and I hope to see your views many more times on this forum. G