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Tenants & LeasingHandling Tenant Complaints Without Losing the Tenant or the Argument
A complaint is information about your property or your tenant, and both are worth having. Here is how to sort complaints, answer them without conceding anything, and keep a good tenant through a bad week.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Tenants & LeasingRoommates, Co-Signers and Occupants: Who Is Actually on Your Lease
Every adult who lives in the home should be a screened, signing tenant, and every tenant should be fully liable for the whole rent. Here is how roommates, co-signers and occupants fit together on a Texas lease.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Tenants & LeasingWhen Your Tenant Sublets or Lists the House on Airbnb
A tenant renting out your house by the night puts your insurance, your HOA standing and your liability on the line. Here is how it gets detected, what the lease should say and how to decide between cure and termination.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Tenants & LeasingWhen Your Tenant Asks to Buy the House
A tenant offer can be the cleanest sale you ever make or a two-year mistake. Here is how to price it, handle the lease, get represented and avoid the handshake rent-to-own that ends in a lawsuit.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Tenants & LeasingRequiring Renters Insurance: Why It Protects the Owner Too
Renters insurance is cheap for the tenant and valuable for the owner, because the liability portion pays for damage the tenant causes before your policy and your deductible are touched. Here is how to require and verify it.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Tenants & LeasingThe Move-In Process: Keys, Utilities, Condition Report and First Month
Every deposit dispute is decided by what was documented at move-in. Here is the sequence from signed lease to settled tenant: funds, insurance, rekey, utilities, condition report and the first thirty days.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Tenants & LeasingWhen a Tenant Stays Past the Lease: Holdover Tenants in Texas
A tenant who stays after the lease ends is not automatically a trespasser and not automatically a month-to-month tenant. What they are depends on your lease and on what you do next. Here is how to handle it.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyRental Turnover: What It Costs, How Long It Takes and How to Shorten It
Turnover is the most expensive event in a rental's year, and most of the cost is time. Here is the sequence, what drives each day, the five cost categories and the scheduling habits that cut weeks off it.
Justin Brown · 7 min read
Maintenance & Make-ReadyFlooring for Rentals: What Survives Tenants and Still Rents Well
The right rental floor is the one that still looks good after the third tenant. Here is how vinyl plank, tile, carpet and hardwood hold up in North Texas homes, where each belongs and how to judge cost over time.
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