Lease Violation

If you are getting no cooperation from your tenant about any other occupants, you can serve a notice to vacate for a lease violation. This action will take you into a courtroom, the last place anyone wants to be. You will have to convince the judge that there is, in fact, a lease violation occurring.

Peter Meer is President/Broker of Meer & Company, Inc., 303-322-1550 which manages 150 single family homes and properties in Denver, Colorado. He holds the Master Property Manager (MPM) designation and the firm holds the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). To learn more about Peter's Landlord solutions visit Meer and Company website at www.meerandco.com

Evasive Tenants

If your tenant is evasive about any other occupants, then you have a different situation. My lease provides for a viewing of the property, during reasonable hours. If you visit the property and find additional beds, clothing, etc., beyond what would be expected for the number of tenants that are suppose to be there, then you move to stage two.

Peter Meer is President/Broker of Meer & Company, Inc., 303-322-1550 which manages 150 single family homes and properties in Denver, Colorado. He holds the Master Property Manager (MPM) designation and the firm holds the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). To learn more about Peter's Landlord solutions visit Meer and Company website at www.meerandco.com

Notification

When it comes to eviction a vacant unit never makes the owner happy. Call the tenant and ask about there being unauthorized individuals living there.
It may well be a relative visiting. I prohibit more than a two-week stay without notification.

Peter Meer is President/Broker of Meer & Company, Inc., 303-322-1550 which manages 150 single family homes and properties in Denver, Colorado. He holds the Master Property Manager (MPM) designation and the firm holds the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). To learn more about Peter's Landlord solutions visit Meer and Company website at www.meerandco.com

Vacancy

What do you do if there are illegal tenants in your rental property? You often learn of these illegal tenants from neighbors or your service people. Should you receive this information, DO NOT automatically call the tenant and threaten legal action. Remember your only real weapon is eviction, which may end up creating a several month vacancy.

Peter Meer is President/Broker of Meer & Company, Inc., 303-322-1550 which manages 150 single family homes and properties in Denver, Colorado. He holds the Master Property Manager (MPM) designation and the firm holds the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). To learn more about Peter's Landlord solutions visit Meer and Company website at www.meerandco.com

I Only Rented to One Person, But Four Are There Now!

It is imperative that occupants of your residential property are those that are authorized. In today's difficult economic times, unscreened, unauthorized and down on their luck individuals may well find shelter in your rental property. More often than not, the current authorized tenant is just helping them out for a brief period of time. That brief period can be for months. So here is the problem, illegal tenants in your rental property. What to do?

Peter Meer is President/Broker of Meer & Company, Inc., 303-322-1550 which manages 150 single family homes and properties in Denver, Colorado. He holds the Master Property Manager (MPM) designation and the firm holds the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). To learn more about Peter's Landlord solutions visit Meer and Company website at www.meerandco.com.

A Fairy Tale

As a Residential Property Manager, decide on the front end, if it is worthwhile to take on an ugly duckling. The ugly duckling and the swan, is after all, a fairy tale. Consider my story the next time you are asked to manage a poor quality property.

Peter Meer is President/Broker of Meer & Company, Inc., 303-322-1550 which manages 150 single family homes and properties in Denver, Colorado. He holds the Master Property Manager (MPM) designation and the firm holds the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). To learn more about Peter's Landlord solutions visit Meer and Company website at www.meerandco.com.

Client Commitment

This year one of the tenants moved. Reminding my client of his earlier commitment only fell on deaf ears. Again, there was no money to properly improve the vacated unit. At that point I terminated the property management agreement.

Peter Meer is President/Broker of Meer & Company, Inc., 303-322-1550 which manages 150 single family homes and properties in Denver, Colorado. He holds the Master Property Manager (MPM) designation and the firm holds the Certified Residential Management Company (CRMC) designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM). To learn more about Peter's Landlord solutions visit Meer and Company website at www.meerandco.com.