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• March 1, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Landlord Q & A: Returning roommate deposits

  Roommates and Deposits Q: One of the two roommates in my rental moved out and wants half the security deposit back. Do I have to return it? A: Probably not. Unless you agreed otherwise, the two room mates created one tenancy. The tenancy exists until both parties move out. The best way to proceed is […]

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• October 1, 2007 / 0 Comments

  Know the Law, Know the Law, Know the Law

  One property manager I knew told the story about the time she was talking to a landlord about her rental property and said “the law says. . .” The landlord replied aghast, “There are laws!!!?” Yes, ma’am, there are laws. And in most states those laws were written to protect the “poor, abused, downtrodden” bad […]

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• September 1, 2001 / 0 Comments

  But I Didn’t Know!

  You remember the old adage, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.” Somewhere, sometime it may be true, but exactly the opposite is true in the rental property business. What you don’t know usually comes up to bite you on the gluteus maximus. Witness the case of the brothers Kopchinski, who thought owning and managing […]

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