Answering Landlord and Rental Questions
Happy 4th Everyone!
TLDR: I'll answer general (non-lawyer) questions regarding property management in Savannah and maybe this can become the long post that we can direct posters to when they post the same questions every month.
Detail:
I have a bit of a wild hair as todays going to be the day that a solid 1/5 of the tenants I manage cause fire damage to the property and then have no idea how those scorch marks in long black trails happened all over that freshly painted porch.
Let's talk about property management in Savannah. I'd like to make a series of edits here with useful comments and questions (like my yearly rent PSA) so that we can direct the same monthly questions about rentals in Savannah here. Less the "What's rent cost?" and more "Do I really have to steam the carpets?"
Many of you have seen me posting for years, especially with my yearly PSA's regarding rental costs in the area and what we can do to get rent costs down. I don't hide my post history, regardless of the folks who chase me around in necro threads, so take a look at my post history on advocacy for tenants rights and increased housing supply.
I also know that to some people absolutely none of that matters and I'm going to get absolutely brigaded for being a terrible no good evil horrible person for daring to facilitate people into well maintained properties (especially the homeless and our veteran and domestic violence suffering populations). I get it that everyone hates landlords on reddit.
Still, maybe we can get enough traction that we can turn this into a useful post that will have good long-term information in it from the questions of the community and it can work as a repository for referring new renters or renters experiencing a (to them) novel problem.
I also encourage other PMs to join in with useful info (but you can use throwaways. No reason to suffer on my account).
EDIT1: Just so everyone knows, I'm going to absolutely try to take any question in good faith, even if it's seemingly provocative. Please extend me the same courtesy at least in this post.