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Landlord Boot Camp – Sat. Feb 27, 2010

Tim Ballering — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:33:45 +0000

Attorney Tristan Pettit is presenting the Landlord Boot Camp again this February. Prior Boot Camps were very well received, with positive feed back from all that attended

Here is Tristan’s letter describing the event.

Hi Everyone:

I have finally left behind the ”snail mail” letters announcing upcoming seminars that I am presenting and have now moved into the correct century and am using an email distribution list.

I will be presenting an all-day seminar on residential Landlord Tenant law in Wisconsin for the Apartment Association of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc. (AASEW). The seminar is entitled “Landlord Boot Camp” and will take place on Saturday, February 27, 2010 from approx. 8:30 am – 5 pm at the Clarion Hotel located at 5311 S. Howell Avenue in Milwaukee.

The cost will be $159 for AASEW members and $249 for non-members. You will receive a 100 page plus manual including lots of landlord tenant law forms. I have given a similar seminar to lawyers, landlords and property managers over 25 times during the past few years and the organizations that have sponsored these seminars typically charge between $300-$400. This is your opportunity to learn all of the same information at a much discounted price.

I will cover pretty much anything and everything that you need to know about residential Landlord Tenant law in Wisconsin, including:

How to properly screen prospective tenants

How to draft written screening criteria to assist you in the selection process

How to comply with both federal and state Fair Housing laws including how to comply with “reasonable

modifications” and “reasonable accomodations” requests.

How to legally reject an applicant

- What rental documents you should be using and why

When you should be using a 5-day notice versus a 14-day notice, 28-day notice, or 30-day notice and how to properly serve the notice on your tenant

Everything you wanted to know (and probably even more than you wanted to know) about the Residential Rental Practices (ATCP 134) and how to avoid having to pay double damages to your tenant for breaching ATCP 134

When you are legally allowed to enter your tenant’s apartment

How to properly draft an eviction summons and complaint

What to do to keep the commissioner from dismissing your eviction suit

What you can legally deduct from a security deposit

How to properly complete a security deposit transmittal / 21 day letter

How to handle pet damage

What to do with a tenant’s abandoned property and how this may affect whether or not you file an eviction suit

-How to pursue your ex-tenant for damages to your rental property and past due rent (and whether it is even worth it to do so)

. . . and much more.

For further information and to register to attend the seminar please contact Paulette (the AASEW’s Membership Director) at 414-276-7378 or paulette@apartmentassoc.org

Thanks and I hope to see you there. Seating is limited to the first 30 people!!!!

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Wait! I was one of your best tenants.

Tim Ballering — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:45:52 +0000

Saturday I had just locked up the office and heading home as I saw a U- Haul truck pull up. Thinking perhaps they were a move in that arrived late I asked if I could help them.

Well seemed that they were in need of an apartment immediately. Sorry it takes at least 3 days for us to process an app and you have to see an apartment first I told them as I started getting back into my truck.

‘Wait! Wait!’ the older lady yelled. ‘We used to be one of your best tenants before we moved to Chicago and we have all the money for rent and deposit’

Well if they were indeed prior good tenants, then we could do something for them. I reopened the office and pulled up their records. Yes they had been tenants.

No they were not one of our best tenants. In fact we evicted them in June of 2006 and they retaliated by breaking all the windows as they left. I pointed this out to the lady. Her adult son said ‘See Momma, I told this was ONE of the landlords that evicted us.’

As they walked I ran a CCAP. Indeed two other owners had evicted them after us, and neither was in Chacago.

I am sure that some landlord was willing to take their $1,200 Saturday afternoon and will not regret it until at least mid December.

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List of Eviction & Criminal Tenant Screening Resources

Tim Ballering — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:35:58 +0000

Wisconsin CCAP (The WI Circuit Court Automation Program), which is under attack by some legislators, provides free access to WI evictions, criminal and civil court cases. This is invaluable in checking out prospective tenants, thereby avoiding nonpaying and disruptive tenants.

What resources are available for similar screening searches outside of WI? I have attached the list of the ones we have identified. Our list currently has resources for about half the states, but not all counties in all of those states. Some are free as is WI, others we have found so far are fee based.

So let’s ”crowdsource” a more complete list. The results will be shared here for all of us to use when screening out of state tenants. If you have found other or better resources please post them to the comments on this page. I will update this list and repost it as additional resources are identified.

Continue reading to see the list we already have assembled . Clicking on a state’s name will take you to that point on the list.