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How to Take Vacations When You Own Investment Property
Landlords: When you are on vacation, who do your tenants call when the furnace stops working? Do you take your phone with you, hoping you will have cell phone coverage? Who would get the call if you had a fire?
With some simply planning, you can easily get out of town and relax knowing your investment property is taken care of.
Prep prior to vacation:
1. Find a vacation buddy that will take emergency calls when you are out of cell phone coverage. This may be your caretaker, a friend, or relative. Make sure they are familiar with your properties and have access to your keys and contractors phone list.
2. Have all your calls routed through one number. Set it up to forward during your vacation or change your outgoing voicemail message giving your vacation buddy’s cell phone number for emergencies only.
3. Build a list of contractors and handymen that you use on a regular basis. Leave that list with your vacation buddy and also bring a copy with you on your vacation.
4. Mount a lock box on every property or leave all the keys in a locked store room to make it easier for workman to access the property if you have to make arrangements when out of town.
5. Even if you don’t have a caretaker at the building, at least identify a trustworthy tenant that you can call to get an honest assessment of any situation.
When on vacation:
1. Be firm with your tenants that non-emergency requests must wait until you return.
2. Give your vacation buddy your travel schedule and emergency contact numbers in case he must absolutely get in touch with you.
3. Leave a copy of your contractor and tenant phone lists with your vacation buddy so he can make calls if necessary.
4. Leave your keys with your vacation buddy and/or make sure he has the combinations to the lockboxes at the properties.
5. Leave your vacation buddy funds or a credit card to purchase materials in an emergency to repair almost anything.
6. If you can’t completely ignore your investment property for too long, set up a pre-arranged date and time to call your vacation buddy to check in.
Whether you are headed out of the country for a week or just to your parent’s house for the weekend, it is important to have thought out how you are going to manage your investment property when you are gone. This will make your tenants happier and your vacation more pleasant.
About the Author
Scott Ficek owns and manages almost 30 investment property units from single family to multi-family. Find his website at www.minnesotainvestmentrealestate.com. He is also a Minnesota Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage Plus in Minneapolis and helps new and seasoned investors buy and own Investment Property.
How can I deal with a lazy, and offensive contractor who my bosses won’t fire?
There is a man at my job who says and does the silliest things. He has made a sexually offensive comment to my supervisor, that she didn’t report for fear of losing her job. He sometimes stays on the company phone or his cell phone for hours at a time, or leaves his desk sometimes forty minutes at a time with no explanation of where he is going or where he’s been, and it leaves his work to be done by me. The problem is, I can’t ignore his work. It just has to be done right away. Because he is a contracted employee, my human resource manager can’t/won’t do anything about it. So, I went to the person in the company in charge of his employment and have had three meetings about these issues, in which case the contracted employee denies everything. Has anyone else experienced anything like this, and if so, what did you do? What would you do in my case?
All of the people in your office are enabling this behavior – even those of you who hate what this guy is doing to your productivity.
Forget ignoring him – won’t work, not productive. Take a good hard look at what can get done without him and implement these business procedures.
Whatever paperwork he fails to do, that ends up in your inbox – begin to route it directly to you. Establish procedures, written if possible to leave his “rung in the ladder” out of the process.
Only when his ineffective contribution becomes glaringly obvious will anything change. Basically you need to make him “unimportant” and reroute around him. Perhaps by putting him as the last step in the process things will pile up. As production comes to a halt, at his desk, it will get noticed.
Don’t encourage or empower his behavior by including him in conversations, laughing at his lame jokes or kidding him about leaving/arriving at his leisure. While you can’t ignore his presence, you can put him in his place by eliminating him from the production process.
Be professional and polite… Good luck…
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