Tenant involvement vs regulation - Landlord Forum thread 356709

Tenant involvement vs regulation by Anonymous (VA) on April 3, 2018 @13:55

The background is for individual Landlord with single Tenant for SFH rental with nice size yard in VA.

Who is responsible?
A. Window repair - T request it, but lower the priority of this repair. When LL let T schedule the dates & times with Servicemen at their flexibility, T does not respond to servicemen for diagnose and then schedule a repair date in time matter. Then, the repair took more tan 30 days to be completed even LL sent Servicemen at the third day after the instance reported. Who is responsible for the delay?

B. Ceiling repair - (just a less than A4 paper size of ceiling cut in the powder room. If there were asbestos concern, then just close the powder room door. This rental property has other 2 full bathrooms to use).

Anyway,

T request & prioritize the repair #1 due to T's Asbestos concern. Assume asbestos were the concern, LL sent Painter1 to diagnose on next Monday, the very first business day, and the fourth day after the ceiling cut). But, T was unhappy and complain that LL not let T schedule the date so that T take time off from T's working hours. Lease said T is responsible to let Servicemen enter if T request the service. Is T's complaint reasonable?

More, Both Painter1 and T schedule coming Saturday as the repair date. That is 5 days delay. Who is responsible for this delay if Asbestos concern were true?

Then, T told LL that Painter1 got injury and need to delay the repair date again; but, both T and Plainter1 could not tell the new targeting repair date. So, LL release Painter1, and luckily found a healthy and available Painter2 within 24 hours to get the ceiling repair on the same Saturday to meet T's priority #1/Asbestos. But, both T and Painter1 make later repair date (next Tue or Wed), T not respond to Painter2 to open the door. Then, LL said LL would be there to open the door to get the Ceiling repair done in time matter. Then, T reply T did not respond to new Painter2 and would schedule next Tue or Wed with Painter1 to get the repair done. But, this further delay enlarge asbestos exposure time if Asbestos concern is true. who is responsible if asbestos concern is true?

T let Painter2 in, not let LL in. T is unhappy for the whole thing b/c LL not let T schedule the dates.

Isn't T having Asbestos concern? Isn't T prioritizing this repair #1? Who is responsible if Asbestos were true?

C. How to approach it?
Assume LL has 3 servicemen candidates for Window repair and the repair is requested by T, should LL send 3 candidate contact information one by one to T or all to T at once? Here let T schedule the dates directly with Servicemen candidates.

If one by one, then T complain T is bombarding by servicemen visits.

If all 3 contact information at once, then T told the whole world (these 3 servicemen candidates: who and who came, you are not the only one bla bla). Some servicemen candidate would not come back or simply not even bother to do the work at this address.

What can LL do?

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Re: Tenant involvement vs regulation by Anonymous on April 3, 2018 @16:12	[ Reply ]

You need to demand entry of your property with 24-48 hour notice posted and mailed to T. You set up a normal day time working arrangement to meet with the service person and let them in to do the work. Tell the T to go F--k off if they complain. If your lease is worth any thing it should have wording that allows for you to get repairs done. If tenant is not allowing for you to do this yourself. In my lease, T would be in violation of the lease and would be given a violation notice. The second time would be cause to evict. Also I would not renew a lease with this A hole T. And raise the rent if I could justify it.

Re: Tenant involvement vs regulation

by Nicole (PA) on April 4, 2018 @08:40	[ Reply ]

YOU are the one who needs to take charge. YOU tell the tenant we'll be there on xx date and time and YOU show up with the contractor. problem solved.