Responsibilities of Landlords

Being a landlord is a very nice deal, you have a property that keeps on generating you income. However as a landlord you also have responsibilities to your tenants.

Here are some good examples:

• The first obligation is to de-lead your property if a child under the age of six is going to reside there.
• You also need to provide a livable property. This means that the house should be resistant to different weather conditions, have working plumbing, working heating and electrical systems, and have a smoke detector.
• A landlord needs to protect its tenants from crime. In order to do so the stairways and common areas need to be well lighted. Doors, gates and windows need to have working locks, and the intercom should be working.
• If a landlord knows tenants are dealing drugs, he has a legal obligation to inform authorities.

The landlord also needs to protect himself from different issues related to the tenants. The tenant can contact the landlord to help him with different property issues... If the landlord doesn't promptly respond, and as a consequence, the tenant suffers harm, the tenant can sue the landlord and win. Because of this, whenever the tenant contacts the landlord with an issue, the landlord should address the issue and keep track of the communication. This will be very useful in case they need to go to court.