improvements

Updated 1-12-23

What Renters can do to your property and how to fix it. Walking through one of our rental properties after a tenant left and left EVERYTHING behind. Including masses of trash.

⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️
00:00 In one of our rental assessing the damage
00:38 What people will do to avoid cleaning
01:05 Mobile home factory caused a problem with floors
01:50 Why is that such a bad habit
02:10 You have a gap that runs across the floor cause by railroading
02:25 How he does the floors and why.
02:35 Never want to run all materials with the floor joists
02:45 Popping a chalk line over where we need to replace the floor
03:15 This won’t get fixed in one day
03:27 What you deal with as a landlord
03:38 If you trash a car you have to pay for it
04:00 Rental property laws
04:15 A different tenant set the property on fire
05:00 On heck of a scam
05:30 Child was eventually charged with arson
05:50 Another renter and property
06:15 Woops that back fired
06:25 Every person who has lived here we’ve helped
06:40 Never had a landlord do any of that for me
06:55 No matter how nice you are…

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Hey guys, I guess you won’t see me in my best mood because this is actually one of my places that I used to be real nice.

But anyway, uh, we’re repairing the floor and a number of other things, probably I’ll take you through it, but, you know, you really would not understand at depth, how bad this place was. But one of these times I’ll take you all the way through whenever I step in and what people do and out of disrespect.

But, uh, this had 3 16 foot trailers of trash and probably two trailer loads of furniture they left behind. They left everything behind. I had uh, the guy I bought the, buying the mobile home park from.

He said, Hey, Phil, you’ll find out that people will move because they have to clean. They can’t live there anymore. This is one of those cases they moved because they just couldn’t deal with DHS anymore and they anyway.

So what we’re dealing with is. Actually a problem that was inherited from design, uh, on the floor, the, the factory ran, long sheets lengthways. Instead of across, that’s really bad habit, because the particleboard and the plywood, uh. Runs their layers this way also. So inherently it’s weaker. And it will bow in between. It doesn’t help that it had water on it.

But if you’ll notice that there’s a little bit of a gap right there, uh, say a quarter inch, and it goes all the way across that particular area. But here where it got just a little bit of water, of course it’s much, much worse. So what we’re going to do is pop lines, and I’ll probably replace material. And guess what? I’m not going to be running the material lengthways, even if it’s only 16 inches wide, I’m going to run 16 inch butt cuts across it. That way, the strength.

Is running this direction across an area because that way. So you always you never want to do what they call railroading, which is to run your material lengthways with the floor joists. You want to go across the floor joists. So, you’re still on the strength of the floor joists, going this way and the plywood going this way. Weaving it. It’s making both of them stronger.

So that’s what we’re going to do.

James, if you can get that chalk-line let’s pop a line where I already made marks. There’s one over there James. Now we’ll uh, cut along that line and we’ll show you each step of the way. You know, I may actually be in different clothes beceause I might not do it all in one day, but this will be a continual thing, um, that I’ll. Probably take you more.

And more through what I deal with as a person who rents property. And I have my solution for the long haul on how to deal with people who do not take care of rentals. Uh, and I would like to point out to, there’s something I tell the renters all the time, it’s like, Hey, if you go and rent a car.

And you trash it, and you take it back to the owner and say, Hey, I need you to fix this car, that I trashed? What do you think the odds are they’re going to fix it without charging. It’s going to happen that you’re going to get charged. Somehow the rental property laws have got so messed up that it protects the renters. So much that now the owner has tremendous losses.

This particular house actually had somebody they were they couldn’t pay their rent. They were going to have to leave. So on the Friday they were going to have to leave that Thursday afternoon, the boy came home from school, 15-year old boy took towels into the bathroom floor, which was tile. Put them in a pile, then went and got gasoline poured it on the, the towel. Set it on fire and ran out the door and yelled, “Hey, my house is on fire, my house is on fire.” When everybody tried to come and help. Multiple people did. He refused to let them through the door. He’s like. Stop trespassing, trespassing. So the house is on fire. And he was stopping people from coming. So what they actually were doing is a is a pretty good little scheme.

You don’t have to set your house on fire to do it. But some tragedy is that they thought and did actually accomplish. That they would get church help and they would get a Red Cross, which they did. Red Cross was here before, within before the Fire Department arrived to the property. The Red cross was here. But guess what? The detectives were here, too. So that boy eventually got charged with arson before he was even an adult.

Uh, and he did a lot of damage in that bedroom. Which, uh, I have to go through the carpet. The carpet actually survived next to it.

Anyway, uh, I’ve had other people who were in the same situation. They were going to be evicted on Friday and on Wednesday said, you know what, you know, screw you, we’re going to. And they went and took a self tapping screw and door and drilled it into the water heater and then called the fire department and the fire department shows up said we can’t fix electrical. So we’re going to have to call the power company. The power company showed up and.

Said We don’t do anything. Inside the house, shut the power off. So they had to move that night. So I can go on and on and perhaps I will some other day, as I remember all the issues, but you know, none of these people who lived here or people that was they owe, every last one of them owed me for being here. More than just being here, me helping them after they were here.

I’ve never had a landlord that would loan me money. I’ve never had a landlord to help me fix my car. I’ve never and I rented guys I’ve rented for years. I’ve never, ever had a landlord like me. But I’m telling you, no matter how nice you are, these people, uh, there are people, and I don’t believe it’s everybody, but there are people. Who are just bad people. They pretend to be nice when they meet you, and after that, they’re going to take advantage. Um, I have a working solution for it. I work on it later, but there’s my opinion.