Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

Don't forget to do this at ALL your rental properties

10 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise walkthrough, Christian Osgood explains how landlords can avoid costly repairs and tenant complaints by performing a thorough inspection of vacant rental units. He stresses the importance of looking both up and down—checking ceilings, floorboards, trim, appliances, and countertops—for signs of mold, discoloration, and water damage. Osgood shares a real example of discovering a leaking dishwasher in a vacant unit, which he fixed before a new tenant moved in, illustrating how proactive due‑diligence can save money and prevent future disputes.

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If you want to save a bunch of money on your rental properties, check this out. Look up at the ceilings and then look at the floorboards all the way around. You're looking for mold, you're looking for any discoloration. People forget to look up and down, so look at the appliances, the countertops. They don't look around the trim. Here's what I found. You have a whole bunch of water damage in here. And oh, what do we have? We have a water-based appliance. We have a dishwasher. Found a little leak there. It's not the end of the world, but this is a vacant unit. Had we not fixed this before someone moved in, they would move in, they'd complain about water. We now have an active problem. You can way ahead of this. This is part of your due diligence process, and when you're doing a walkthrough in a unit, just remember to look up and down. It's gonna save you a ton of money.