Your Investor's Guide on How To SUCCEED in Section 8 Housing Rentals

Chapter 8

Water Bills

The best tips ever on keeping them down.

"First, since this is a book, let me tell you some stories/nightmares of tenants abusing water. All of these stories in one way or another helped us come up with different strategies in preventing high water bills. Strategies that I believe are the best in the business!..."

"We started in the bathroom and found no leaks, went down the basement and found no leaks. Last but not least was the kitchen. Again, no leaks. One thing Nick
noticed was the whole time we were checking for the “phantom leak”, the woman stood in front of the back door. Just before we were about to leave, Nick asked
her to move out of the way so he could check out back. “Everything is fine out back,” she promised. Nick walked into the dining room and looked out back into the yard. Whatta ya know! The woman had a rubber pool as big as the yard. No filter on it, she would just dump it when it got dirty and fill it up the next day. Why not? She thought Uncle Mike and Uncle Nick were paying for it. That was the last pool that anybody filled up in our back yard. What did we do?..."

"Since Mrs. Green is already giving me excuses, I know she is covering something up. It’s time to put on my Sherlock Holmes hat and trench coat and go investigate again. What am I going to find this time? Another pool? Carwash? Has my tenant opened up the world’s largest aquarium? No – how about a Laundromat! That’s exactly what she was running..."

"You wouldn’t believe the age and size of some of the washers and dryers these people want to hook up in your property. I often wonder what came first, the washboards or their washer..."

Old Washboard	Actual tenant's washer

 

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