my tenants just left | before & after

hey lauren what are we doing uh looking

at a house after a tenant left

why'd they leave us did you evict them

no they uh

were resident doctors and there's a

hospital down the street and we knew

going into it they signed like a 16

month lease

and it was during like a weird time in

kobe so we just like took it

because uh no one else wanted to like

sign

a lace at all during that month so it

wasn't like april of the pandemic it was

crazy it was like a really weird time

because usually we like

tenants that like say like we want to

stay really long time but that was like

the best

we could get at that point and they were

really great they were absolutely

wonderful

and what's so great actually so the best

we could get was perfect tenants for 16

months yes

but what's really awesome is that

because there's a hospital

down the road about three months prior

to these tenants leaving they're like

hey

um my doctor friend at the same hospital

wants to rent the house

when we're done and so i qualified them

and they were perfect

and so i didn't even have to like put it

on the market because i had another

doctor wanting it so

that made me think like okay buying your

hospital is actually really good you get

nurses and doctors

pro tip rent near hospitals

not don't do what the noobs do and just

go to the cheapest areas

go to the best areas that's right noob

goes to cheapest area pro goes to good

areas with great tenants

the hospital's like over there somewhere

yes sir

you ready to go see this house do you

know what's better than

do you know what's better than the pro

what's it wait

the the pro is better than the noobs

you're telling this there's something

better than the pro

yeah what hacker

all right let's go inside and see what

we got you ready max

are you gonna come yeah yeah you got

your boots

yeah he's got his face what

god okay all right let's go see

so uh this is our um this is our formula

for our rental properties this uh this

property we

did our typical renovation on the same

sort of

color on the inside outside that way

it's it's basically mindless for us to

do our renovations because it's the same

thing every time

we try to get high quality neighborhoods

actually that's pretty much the only

thing we do high quality neighborhoods

uh long-lasting products things that we

can install

inexpensively but that'll last a long

time and uh that looked pretty nice so

it looks like the cleaner is here right

now but that's okay

so hello hey

hi all right so

let's take a look we haven't been in

this for a while but uh it looks

really good let's flip the camera around

all right so we've got our

general theme here nice inexpensive kind

of quick set

hardware pieces here we got our typical

color schemes here with our flat wall

paint

don't be a noob don't get semi-gloss

wall paints very gross when rental

property owners get

semi-gloss wall paints looks like the

tenants did a little bit of touch up so

i might have to double check that but

personally we always pay for any kind of

pain that's an owner responsibility but

that's not bad

the walls actually look very very good

for 16 months i mean everything actually

looks like it's in really good condition

the doors are in great condition the uh

the light fixtures are

still pretty much brand new i mean the

property looks brand new which is great

floor looks amazing this tile here

is not tile well this is our beautiful

linoleum

we love this original cabinetry here

from the

50s just so you can see it here this is

the before

of the cabinetry with the original sink

which we just

put a nice top on here this

i think was only like 59 by the way so

it looks great and it still looks great

which i really like

original cabinetry up here see a lot of

people a lot of noobs come in here and

they just

tear all this stuff out i'm like why

would you tear it out this is great

put a new toilet in something we

typically do this tub by the way

is completely original

solid iron tub original tub

and this used to be the original i want

to say pink tiling

looks pretty good it's nice and glazed

and got our

nice finish plate over here for the moen

looks very good

put on a nice glass door here as well

which

also adds really nice character i feel

like to the bathroom

so you got that nice contrast that

bronze and the lighter colors yeah jack

don't don't get on their bed

because you don't want to do that that's

not your bed that's someone else's bed

uh the tenants are still moving out but

uh

yeah place looks really good plants look

at

that valance looks like it's down about

an inch or so

you might have to adjust that up a

little bit but otherwise i mean they

left this spotless this is

very good for 16 months i mean they

cleaned

everything yeah they did a really good

job right over here here's our

we did put a new furnace and air

conditioner into this property

hey jack this is a furnace do you know

what furnaces do

we cook well they make hot air

have people leave stuff like it's in the

agreement actually that if anything is

left that it's

no longer the previous tenant's property

it's then

for us to do what we're pleased with but

they made an agreement with us that they

wanted some the old furniture from the

fire tennis so i had them write up like

a itemized list

oh so the new tenants agreed to take

this stuff yeah oh okay well

that's interesting yes sir i'll be right

there okay jack

i'm gonna take a look in the garage okay

garage is obviously older here you get a

little bit of cracks in the garage

foundation pretty typical out here

but wow garage looks pretty good as well

for what it is it's just an

unfinished garage mostly here okay

floor looks so good i mean for 16 months

here this is great we got our smokes

carbons everything you know the texture

here i don't really

love on the ceiling but let's be real

if i'm gonna put in a 15 light fixture

right here

i'm not about to re-texture all of the

ceiling in the hallways here

although we did refinish the bedrooms

because the bedroom still had acoustic

and this is not really acoustic ceiling

this is just like

something else which is okay let's go

take a peek over here on this side so

here's another bathroom

you can see we did the same theme over

here

as in the other same with the glass door

here

yeah same kind of plate right there to

cover up the work that was done pedestal

sink because

nothing else would fit same original

cabinets here

okay another bedroom over here it's

really good

shape just overall great condition

properly this is an original door by the

way the front door here

uh french door uh barn doors rather barn

doors look great

nice oh yeah see that's that's the

perfect reason we made these doors to

separate these

children into like this big addition

over here you might remember if you

watched some of my original videos

this floor right here was actually

recessed uh

down about eight inches and so we raised

that entire area up so you can kind of

close off the children area here

opened up a little bit of here

to uh dining well the dining room

kitchen area

these are all original cabinets i think

many of you might now know that i'm a

big fan of

keeping rather than replacing things

that don't need to be replaced

i'll find a light fixture over here so

not my favorite but we had a

limited budget here so we didn't want to

uh

replace all of sort of the brick molding

that was done here and it's not

yeah not my favorite but you know what

we got away with keeping all the

cabinets

uh we only had to replace the stove the

dishwasher was in great shape

put a nice stone countertop on it and

you know what

it works it works you know it's a it is

a rental it's not like it's a property

that we're

living in forever thinking oh it's got

to be perfect it's got to be out forever

doesn't work that way see they even had

all these sconces here

put little plates over and like a pro

just made those disappear

what do we got over here we got a child

down i'm coming through i'm gonna go to

the backyard okay

there's a creeper coming i gotta go my

room okay i'm gonna sneak by

uh something we did over here too is we

did a nice contrast to the ceiling

because the ceiling remember the ceiling

was like super dark and brown and

everything wait don't you remember that

fireplace too

fireplace that like really opened up

this room i mean it's already a big room

but like really opened up more space oh

my gosh yeah it's so good

eyesore too oh you're gonna upset like

30 of people now probably well hey at

least they know how you feel

uh jack can't get it open now he locked

it

all right here we go all right let's see

how the backyard looks

oh oh oh oh it looks great

look they put little dangly lights up

too that's it char charge the tenants

they've improved

yeah oh this is wonderful

this is this is very good this is a very

good move out

and see this is why we have a

do-it-yourself rental uh

management and uh rental renovations

course

so you can get yourself great tenants

that leave the property

better than when you rented it to them

these people are great

this this is going to be like 100

deposit refund huh

at all you haven't seen anything yeah i

mean you know what too like

even if it was something these people

are great yeah it's like whatever we'll

pay for it

and then like the communication was

always superb during the whole duration

of their tendency like

really on top of texting me about stuff

like in a very like

professional really good communication

so i i have no complaints at all

super good uh it's so that you don't go

over there

oh no

yeah go check

jump there you go

yeah where are your shoes okay

yeah i have to move my van sure oh yeah

yeah oh okay they're all done

yeah bye victoria all right all right

well i think we're done too are we done

okay well it says because the furnace is

off

you can turn the furnace off and then or

on and then the meter will move

how do i turn your service i'll show you

there you go that's good you gotta wait

it's gonna go in in like

30 seconds it's gonna go and then the

fire is gonna come okay

okay you ready yeah is it gonna explode

[Laughter]

i hope not i don't think so

oh here it goes

no here it is there it is oh the fire's

in this window you see it max

see that hole right there you see the

fire it's like a jet it's like a plane

you see the big blue and the yellow fire

right there

and jack now the meter's moving go check

the meter bags

one is moving how do we turn on these

uh well those move after this one moves

a lot

so this moves a little bit and then the

other ones move and then that one moves

and then

that one and then that one that one all

right laura anything else you want to

add

uh one thing too that i was really

impressed by is that they

were like hold on guys we're gonna add

new mulch which

i wouldn't even required because like

when max max

max hold on one second please we'll show

mom the fire in a second

uh yeah one thing that they were asking

they're like

we want to know because we know that the

mulch isn't like fresh and new

and that's very normal like to me that's

kind of like normal wear and tear

because like which gets like blown away

like it gets really windy sometimes here

and so i just usually do like a fresh

thing and so the new tenants were like

oh we'd like to add our own mulch and

like help with the garden and stuff and

usually i'm always for that like usually

anybody that wants to

enhance the the garden usually over

improves it so i'm like okay fine

perfect yeah no it's like really great

what uh what else i mean are we happy we

got rid of that fireplace

yes yeah the glazing held up really well

yeah in the bathrooms

uh the glass shower doors they took care

of those very well

yeah one did they even use the showers

uh i don't know they

on their own uh hired like a deep

cleaner that like

there's a company here or there are a

few probably everywhere where you like

say like hey i'm moving out i'm a tenant

can i have like the move out

clean job oh that's smart get my

security deposit they must have even

cleaned the

light switches because i didn't even see

any dirt or grime yeah not that that

really matters but

you just kind of look anyway yeah

because usually i always just pretty

much guarantee higher my cleaner

that's good jack i know i know which one

you mean

higher my cleaner like the day before

the new tenant comes in just to like

make sure everything's spotless but

honestly it was probably unnecessary

like it looks like they did such a good

pretty perfect

yeah the one thing like it was a tough

decision was

to match the existing flooring of that

wood color

i chose that linoleum but i think it

it works it it just totally works and

you know this

short of like tiling and spending

thousands of dollars

so we spent like 400 on a kitchen and

like 200 in each bathroom yeah cause we

wanted to get guys

moving i know we got to turn it off now

okay come on look

okay well we're going to look at the

fire we got to show mom the fire you

guys actually did turn on here

yeah how else are we going to get it to

move

there's one there that's right all right

cool let's go turn it off

are you ready max

oh it's hot in here now

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go look at the fire with this little guy

i thought three times today

oh that's not good

oh in the little window let me see i see

it i want to see

okay next is not another one

what is this one for i see an yeah i

don't know maybe just to read codes or

something come up to this one

every window is different yeah really

the only thing that i needed to do was

like

the paint touch-up i i think they

probably would have left it it was

probably

gonna take the touch yeah that was done

yesterday oh okay okay

but like i think that like i said i

think that

me needing the cleaner on top of them

having cleaned i got it necessary

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yeah it is a trapdoor jack you're right

that's to get into the bottom well you

want me to show you guys wow

here move you gotta you gotta push the

sticky piston

i'm just kidding it's this little hook

see

where does it go you wanna go down there

where it goes

to the nether

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it goes under the house check why well

if you ever have to fix something

um

midway through uh the this last tenant's

tenancy they adopted

a pretty good-sized dog no sign of any

dog like they did such a good job like

you don't smell it like they obviously

cared like they didn't allow scratching

to happen

so i guess the title of this video needs

to be like our perfect tenant

yeah this is a good one right why our

tenant just left us

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okay well that's cool that's great

all right well so there you have it i

mean that's a

pretty good check-in i'd say i i mean

golly to see this is

people ask me all the time they're like

oh kevin it must take you a lot of time

to manage the properties well first of

all lauren does

uh but lauren how much time do you

actually spend managing the properties

yeah i i've told people when they've

asked me that if

a property is not on the market it

probably takes me on average about 10

minutes a day for all my properties

because all of them together all of them

together

just like 30 seconds per property yeah

because there are a lot of days that

there's

absolutely nothing so but when there is

a property on the market it obviously

that really increases it a lot but like

how much like 20 hours a week

yeah yeah to like get something done

fast get it rented fast but

when you have a really good product that

you supply and you also combine that

with having a really highly qualified

tenant

it just everything kind of runs smoothly

on its own because it's not like i'm

giving the tenant

a crappy property where things are

constantly breaking we really take care

of our properties we take pride in

taking care of our properties

so you know it's just the random rare

thing when things break or a little

mishap happens but like other than that

it's pretty smooth sailing

so so buy the course so buy the course

if you want to learn how to be a

professional

stop the yeah that's the new

coupon code okay guys you ready

yeah you discovered a light switch

you're ready i'm ready

yeah yeah

you want any knees yes all right

because it's time to go home

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all right that does that and we'll see

in the next one hey quick shout out to

those of you at the

united states postal service especially

here in ventura county really appreciate

all of y'all for watching i just had a

conversation out here

so thank you shout out to y'all buy real

estate

huddle go long especially on ventura

county

all right thanks folks

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