Important Landlord Rights that You and Every Landlord Must Know

Just because they don't know their landlord rights well enough, too many rental property owners suffer from painful mistakes and unnecessary. Find out your rights as a landlord today so that you can manage your tenants easily and smoothly.

What are Your Landlord Rights for Collecting Rent Payments?

As a landlord you have the right to collect rent payments from your tenants on the date it is due.

For most types of rental properties, you are free to set the amount of rent as long as your tenant agrees to it. If your area imposes a rent ceiling or you have a regulated tenancy, you are not allowed to set your rent amount over the legal limit.

If your tenant is late in his rent payments, you are allowed to impose late fee charges as the amount is considered reasonable by the laws of your area and your rental agreement mentions this point.

What are Your Landlord Rights for Managing Your Tenants

If your tenants have anyone staying over on your rental property for a prolonged period of time, they have to inform you of the matter. It is your rights as a landlord to decide if you want to keep the person as an additional tenant or ask him to leave.

You are allowed to enter your rental property for rent collection and property maintenance if you notify your tenants at 24 to 48 hours beforehand.

In the case of emergency repairs such as a burst water pipe, you are allowed to access to your rental property immediately without informing your tenant.

If your tenant causes any damage to your property due to abuse or neglect, you have the landlord rights to demand him to make timely repairs and fork out money for any repair bills.

What are Your Landlord Rights When it Comes to Security Deposits?

You have the right to ask your tenants for a security deposits when they sign the rental agreement with you.

The amount of security deposit you can ask for depends on your local landlord tenant law but you are generally limited to 2 month's rent as the maximum amount you can demand.

If you want, you can actually choose not to ask for any security deposits to attract more tenants but personally I won't recommend you to do that because you will be giving up an effective safeguard against nasty tenants.

At the end of your lease agreement, you are allowed to deduct money from the security deposits if your tenants still owe you rent, have unpaid bills or caused property damage.

Teo Zhenjie has been showing landlords how to manage to their tenants and rental properties effectively on his website Propertydo