Post 5 You missed? Hope not too much of today's chapter is called University of Life ...
Original publication date on the United States Real Estate Forum on Facebook:
2019-01-02T04:34:37+0000
Post 5
Did you miss? Hope not too much?
Today's chapter is called the University of Life
I never got to university, I never got in touch with it, if there's something I want to know then I just teach myself, it's me.
But there are things that need to happen to us or someone else will teach us, so when such an event happens to me and sometimes it costs you money for a mistake you made, I like to compare it to a semester at the university.
In a case like this,
New tenants come into the apartment, of course, after passing the filter, two young guys, just out of college, even the parents signed in as renters, all well and good.
They entered the apartment in the winter and signed for a year and a half so that the contract will end in the summer - all good I am happy.
The contract is over and the tenants decide not to renew, leave on time, leave a bit of dirt beyond what is customary then I charged them for how much I had to clear the garbage after them.
A new tenant comes and calls me after they enter the apartment that the electricity company will not transfer the bill on their name until the $ 4500 open debt is closed !!!
Now leave the matter of what to do to get to such an account, that's not the story.
I call the electricity company, try to find out, and they tell me that in the past year and a half there has been no open account at all. The previous tenants never called to open an electricity bill!
Wow, I ask myself where their entire system does not receive money for a year and a half and continues to supply electricity?!?!?!!
From here to there, the landlord has no way of getting out of it, believe me that I have tried.
I paid like a good boy and we went on.
The moral, every time the end of the contract comes, especially with tenants who have announced that they are not staying, I call the electricity company and ask as the landlord if the bill is paid.
About a week or two after a new tenant comes in, I call again and ask if they have opened a new account.
If I am not for myself, who? And someone will tell me it was not $ 4500 worth a whole semester ?!
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Is the person who works with a management company the one who handles all these issues of accounts, etc.?
Michael Kheled
a question:
Is it not possible / acceptable to transfer the name on the account to the tenant as is done in Israel?
Or alternatively, do not you take money as a deposit against closing all accounts?
A question of starting in the field -
Is it not customary to take open checks as is customary in renting in Israel?
One for water, one for municipal taxes and one for municipal electricity.
After seeing that everything is in order (usually 30 days after the end of the contract) the checks are returned
Before you give tenants key, it's best to make sure they have gas on their behalf.
How to make sure?
Call the electricity and gas company and say that you are the owner and want to make sure that the bill in their name starts from …… and if they do not pay this is their problem
Very true - this is undoubtedly an expensive seminar
Continue a smiling and electrifying day?
You saved me a semester
Definitely important, it also happened to me only with a water bill and in a lower amount for my luck… definitely must have my hand on the pulse regarding bills…
Wow איז .What an important post.
Thanks Matan
Thanks for writing this for all of us! Important Information…
I went through exactly the same thing. Eviction, the tenant received an account of 4000 $ that illegally connected to the electricity grid and stole it.
I asked the electric company why they contacted the police but did not inform me… They said there are laws of privacy.
Great… They can steal electricity, change connections - but their privacy must be maintained.
The account was in her name. Luckily for me.