our fees will be deducted from the initial rent and damage deposit and the balance will be forwarded to the owner.
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6. Who chooses the tenant?
Generally the we choose the tenant. There may be cases where the owner wishes to have a particular person rent a property. This is, of course, perfectly fine.
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7. What lease contract is used?
Normally Mel & Jay use their own lease contract.
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8. Who decides what maintenance and repairs are needed?
This is worked out jointly between the owner and the Mel & Jay. Generally, obvious needed repairs and maintenance are performed at the discretion of the Mel & Jay up to a cost of $250. Any repairs or maintenance exceeding that amount will only be performed with the written concent or the owner unless it is an emergency repair. Owners may have anyone perform work on their properties they choose.
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9. What happens when a tenant doesn't pay their rent?
If a tenant doesn't pay their rent the we will make all reasonable efforts to effect collection. If penalties are paid by the tenant for late rent payment the amounts of those penalties will be kept by Mel & Jay.
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10. Who pays advertising costs when Mel & Jay is looking for new tenants?
The owner pays for newspaper advertising if any. The cost of most other forms of advertising are born by Mel & Jay. We make extensive use of internet advertising.
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11. Who pays the utilities?
The tenant is usually responsible for all utilities. Water bills are general responsibility of owners.
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12. Who mows the lawn and shovels the snow?
Lawn mowing is normally the responsibility of the owner but special arangements with tenants or often made combined with a rent reduction. Sidewalk shoveling is done by Mel & Jay and billed to owners when completed. Walks and driveways for one and two family homes are usually the responsibility of tenants. Walks and driveways for apartment buildings are the responsibility of owners.
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13. How does Mel & Jay get paid?
Mel & Jay takes its fees from collected rents and forwards the balance to the owner monthly.
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14. Who determines How much the rent should be?
Mel & Jay will advise the owner on the amount of rent that should be charged for particular properties, however, the owner always approves the amount charged for rent.
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15. What about insurance?
The owner acquires and keeps Fire and and Liability Insurance. Mel & Jay does not insure oOwner's properties.
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15. What if I have other questions?
We are avail by phone, fax and email. If you need answers to a question that isn't on this page we'd love to discuss it with you (see the Contact page.) We want to cover every base.
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