Helpful Items to Have Around to Help Your Tenants
Dustin Edwards • May 9, 2021
A few Items Can Help You to Keep Happy Tenants
When you are helpful to your tenants they have the wonderful tendency to want to stay longer and treat your property with a greater amount of respect. It may sound small, but this small bit of helpfulness can save you valuable dollars each time a tenant moves out. For many landlords this can seem like a foreign concept as they feel tenants should provide for themselves as they are providing the property and while that might be factually true one can learn a bit from how proprietors of AirBnBs have taken care of their guests.
With short term rental (i.e. AirBnB, VRBO) hosts they make everything as convenient as possible as they are looking for great reviews to win their next stay. While long term landlords don’t have a rating system on their properties (yet anyway) there are small aspects you can take from their approach that could help you with your Long Beach rental.
Welcome Book
A welcome book can give someone a quick guide to aspects about your property vs. letting them “figure it out”. Now for a long term rental you can simplify your welcome book to include only essential (vs. the wide entertainment aspect in short term rentals) but consider including items like the following:
- Appliance guides/instructions
- Sprinkler schedule
- Water shutoff location
- Trash day pickup
- Street sweeping day
While these might seem like small or they can figure it out, these small items can show your tenant they are truly welcome from day one.
Common Household Tools
Home rentals in Long Beach are particularly popular, but with a home there are often items that people need that they might not want to buy because it isn’t their property. To help tenants with common challenges that they could encounter, consider putting together a few common tools that could help them around the house. Consider the following:
- Allen Key for Garbage Disposal
- Adjustable Wrench
- Rake/Shovel/Broom
- Plunger
These can be put in a closet or garage space and even be identified in your welcome book to help your tenant see that there are a few items to help them should they encounter a small item that doesn’t need your attention.
Bulbs and Batteries
Before you roll your eyes and think “come on” consider that a happy tenant is one that understands you care about them and a few items of convenience can help. Two very common items that often need replacing can be put in a closet to help tenants when they first move in. Consider the following:
- Light Bulbs - While you might have a good volume of can lights consider having replacement bulbs at the ready for common areas such as bathroom vanity lights and ceiling fan lights.
- Batteries - No, not for remote controls necessarily, but consider providing 9 volt replacement batteries for the smoke detectors if they aren’t the newer 10yr or wired versions.
Garden Supplies
Many people are attracted to renting a home because then they can get a yard and enjoy the outdoor space or even enjoy some basic gardening. To help tenants with the fundamentals of lawn care (even if you have a gardener) consider providing a safe weed-kill product or even a small rake or trowel to help with weed removal. Often the smallest of items can help someone to take a bit of pride with their rental occupancy.
When you want to find out more about how we keep tenants happy for the long term we invite you to call us today at (562) 888-0247 or you can even fill out our Owner Application
and we can develop a custom rental analysis for your property (or properties).
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