Landlord Newsletter - 95% of Tenant Problems...

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In this newsletter:

• Is that Landlord Reference REALLY the Landlord Reference?
  
• Free Form: Tenant Finder Chart
• Ask the Attorney, Real Estate Attorney, John Reno
  

Please e-mail us if you have any questions or would like to add or share any material / information. Have a great month and an even more successful year ahead.
John Nuzzolese
John@theLPA.com

Is the Landlord Reference really the tenant's landlord?

The purpose of The Landlord Reference Qualifier is to help you to determine if the information being given to you by the tenants' current or past landlord is the truth. This screening technique has been successfully tested over time by professional landlords...

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Score your Tenant-Finder™ Chart to help you evaluate the prospective applicant. Before making an appointment to show your property to an applicant, examine your findings. The LPA Tenant-Finder Prospect Qualifying Chart will help you determine a more accurate score for each applicant.

The Tenant-Finder™ Prospect Qualifying Chart helps you break down the evaluation of a rental prospect into five main categories.

Those categories are

1. Money
   
2. People
   
3. Credit
   
4. Tenant
   
5. Timing
   

Although the Tenant-Finder™ Prospect Qualifying Chart is designed to work with the scoring of the Tenant-Finder™ Worksheet, it can also be used alone to score prospective tenants.

FREE DOWNLOAD Tenant-Finder™ Prospect Qualifying Chart

Real Estate Attorney John Reno, an expert in landlord tenant legal matters, has specialized in landlord tenant law for many years. Mr. Reno answers questions asked by LPA members to help solve all kinds of landlord tenant problems.

Dear Mr. Reno:
I had a tenant call the police for some things and decided to get rid of him. I kept his rent checks and never cashed them and filed and eviction. He said he is going to subpoena the rents checks from me.
I didn't give him his security deposit and said I was keeping it for rent and cleaning.
What can he do to me? If I didn't cash the checks will I be in trouble?
David from Pa.

A: You may have some troubles there. As a general rule, if you hold on to rent checks, you can't say you weren't paid. The rent was tendered. You may as well deposit the checks now.

What is the basis for this eviction? You can't say it's non-payment if he's giving you rent checks! Did you give a 30 day notice? If so, you should have returned his check. Oh boy.

If you have a landlord tenant problem you'd like to ask a question about, please feel free to e-mail me your question.
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