Tim Hubbard explains how to split maintenance costs between landlord and tenant. Items under $10 should be tenant responsibilities. Provide an "ammo box" of spare supplies like light bulbs and batteries so tenants don't call for minor fixes.
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You're not responsible for maintenance Items less than $10. If a tenant, remember they're a tenant at this time, wants to change a light bulb, and they need to know if that's their. Their responsibility or yours if there's not a spare light bulb at the property. And so if you have to end up sending a handyman out to change light bulb, maybe this property is in an area where you're not. That can be really expensive, right? So maybe you want to outline some of those small little things so you don't have service calls out there for nothing. Another thing that we like to do is have what we call an ammo box. So we'll spare light bulbs, we'll leave spare batteries. But you'll want to outline how much of this you leave in there. How much of your supplies are you leaving up front? So how much toilet paper are you leaving, how much shampoo conditioner. All these types of things we want to make sure we have in our lease. And leases can be a little complex, it can be long. So I highly recommend before your guest actually moves in, that you have a summary that you send to them, right?
