Police Have Called Me 5 Times In A Month
Greetings All,
I am at a loss of what to do. The police have been called out to a rental home I have for the tenants having loud music. This is about the 5th time they have called me regarding this. My lease states that loud noise or parties are not permitted. I have already sent them a warning letter. What are my rights at this point in California if any? I am tired of the police calling me.
Commercialking,
Awesome reply. Thank you. This is exactly what I was thinking. The police have not made any arrest or given any tickets. They just keep calling me when the neighbors call. I have called dispatch for the police department regarding the report numbers. All instances have been between 12pm and 9:30pm. I have drove by the home a couple times and have not seen anything or loud noise. The tenant states that she just has a boom box. I am going to do a home inspection in the next month just to make sure there has been no damage. Any thoughts on home inspections. My move in letter states that I will do home inspections every 3-6 months.
I though that I might respond to this thread regarding California tenants.
Be EXTREMELY careful in CA. This is a tenant friendly state. It can be extremely lengthy and costly to convict. My advice is to try every reasonable effort to reach a solution with the tenants.
My next step, if there is no compromise in sight, is to negotiate with the tenants. By this I mean persuade them that you are selling or moving in yourself and offer them some CASH to vacate. You could return their deposit, give them moving money, or even one months rent towards their future residence.
Carefully choose your battles! If it gets ugly you will have legal costs, no rent for six months (at least), and a property that has been vandalized severely.
Just my opinion, I wish you luck in the resolution of your tenant problem.
Take care,
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JRendell-
Glad to hear that you are being proactive in this situation.
Dogs are a huge problem for landlords. I do not allow vicious breed dogs. But I do allow other dogs with a pet fee and a signed two page pet addendeum. My lease also says that they must abide by all known and future laws and ordinances and insurance requirements.
But bottom line is that the lease stays with the property. You just need to give them the proper amount of notice (it will most likely be 30 or 60 days) and then tell them that they can sign a new lease, but the new lease will not allow dogs.
Brenda
This may be a case where you would want to try to cooperate with them to get them out sooner (or at least the dog). My purchase included a tenant with a half-wolf. Fortunately, his lease required that he have insurance, but he had never bothered to get it. As far as I can tell, that breed is simply not insurable.
I was always very friendly with him, and blamed my insurance company for the situation. He appreciated my cooperation in letting him out of the lease with no hassles (I was generous with the security deposit), and he was gone within a couple weeks. Turns out he wanted a bigger place anyway.