Preventing Do-It-Yourself “Improvements” Gone Wrong at Your New York Rental Property

Do-it-yourself home improvements are all the frenzy nowadays. Reality shows and social media have inspired all types of people to try to remodel or repair the interior of their households alone. Unfortunately, this craze isn’t just accepted by homeowners, but among renters too. Although landlords like a tenant who will take care of their rental home as if it were their own, some renters take it a bit too far. With a few anticipatory plans, New York property owners can prevent unwanted tenant “improvements” and retain their rental homes in its perfect state.

As far as building home improvements, the kitchen and bathroom are the usual goals. Thousands of prominent videos display excited do-it-yourselfers how to color cabinets, modify faucets and hardware, and change light fixtures. Fashionable enhancements in these rooms also incorporate tile backsplashes and brightly painted walls. When completed fittingly, these types of minor remodels can end in unique interior spaces.

The dilemma is that conventional interiors do nothing to improve your property’s value. In reality, if your tenant performs a substandard work of their enhancements, your property value could even crash. For instance, if your tenant chooses to suspend wallpaper in the lounge, they could not only ruin the painted wall under it but also craft a wall-to-wall mess that will be costly to repair.

Because individual tastes change from person to person, preferred interiors can also seriously limit your capacity to rent the home to a new tenant. A highlighted wall in fuchsia may charm your existing renter, but the following renter may not like it. Alternatively, if your tenant harms themselves or ruins the home’s plumbing or electrical systems in the procedure, that creates a completely new set of difficulties. If they succeed in cracking a pipe or incorrectly connecting the fittings while replacing a bathroom faucet, you may be cleaning up leaks and repairing water damage that may not have happened in the first place.

Although insignificant upkeep assignments can and should be anticipated of a renter, fixes or the remodeling of any of the home’s permanent essentials must be discouraged in the lease. One scheme is to do regular property evaluations, something that Real Property Management New York Gold proposes to all of our property landlords in New York and the surrounding areas. We will keep track of your rental home, ensuring that the tenant is keeping the property in the required order and immediately handling any tenant requests for enhancements or repairs. Contact us online or call us at 347-905-5770 to see what we can do for you.