Posted by NewLandLord on September 08, 2004 at 05:12:45:
Part of the tenant’s problem is that she has been through a messy divorce and a hurtful subsequent relationship, and she seems to “want to be a victim”; the other part is that she really does have a lot of stuff to move. Admittedly, we have disrupted her kitchen, dining room, living room areas for two weeks, first finding the problem, then fixing it up to this point. However, we have told her that we will give up one months rent for that inconvenience to her. We have decided to tell her that unless she cooperates, we will restore the areas affected by water as best we can (matching existing carpet), and she can live with it that way until the end of her lease. She is shaping up to be a problem tenant. (P.S., she does not currently work – so, it is not as if we are asking her to take time off from a job to move her stuff.)
Posted by NewLandLord on September 07, 2004 at 20:23:58:
I have a rental house that experienced relatively significant water damage to carpets cause by a leaking appliance. I want to replace and upgrade the carpet throughout the house ? partly covered by insurance, partly out of my own pocket. The tenant has a lot of furniture and various other items in the house. The carpet company will move furniture around to support the installation, but they (reasonably, in my opinion) will not move ?personal? items (books, CDs, DVDs, computer equipment, clothes). However, the tenant is refusing to cooperate by moving his personal items out of closets, off of shelves, and out of the way. How would you deal with this situation? Is it possible to force the tenant to cooperate? Could the tenant be evicted for failure to cooperate?
Posted by JohnBoy on September 07, 2004 at 20:35:51:
Why in the world would the tenant not be willing to move their stuff to get new carpet???
Simple solution. Don’t move your stuff, don’t get new carpet! Simple!
Replace it later when the tenant moves out!
Dumb $#^% Tenant! I am willing to install new carpet. But until you move all your stuff we can’t replace the carpet. So if you prefer to keep the ruined carpet instead then that is perfectly OK with me! I’ll just take care of it after you move out in the future! Whatever floats your boat.