Communications With The Tenant

One of the primary duties that your property management expert in Annandale performs is providing a level of separation between the tenant and the rental investor. The best practice is for the rental investor to deny any direct contact with the renter. Important advice for rental investors: avoid sharing your contact information with the renter.

Tenants in Annandale often ask to break lease provisions, or make other special requests. The property manager knows the rules and knows why the rules are there in the first place. A renter can ambush an uniformed rental investor at a moment of ignorance causing the landlord to grant a request that is counter to the rental investor's own interests.

The result of giving into a seemingly simple favor can be a disaster in the long run. Furthermore, once the tenant believes there is a higher authority to appeal to, the tenant will appeal all matters to the property owner, which cost the landlord time and effort.

Renters will use contact with the owner to build a personal relationship with the landlord. Personal feelings can make it much harder for the landlord to make objective business decisions in a impersonal manner. Additionally, the tenant can hound or harass a owner at unreasonable hours or with unreasonable requests.

 

We're paid to be your protect the owner's interests. It's more difficult to do that job when the tenant is going to ask the owner to second-guess our work.