5011 Majestic Oaks - Otter AI
OVERVIEW
The meeting focused on the condition and maintenance of 5011 Majestic Drive. Key points included the need to document the tankless water heater for annual inspections, ceiling repairs, and the installation of a CO detector. The team discussed keeping appliances like the washer, dryer, and microwave due to their fit and the tenants' financial responsibility for their maintenance. They also planned a full yard cleanup, including mulching and gutter cleaning, and addressed the importance of regular pest control and exclusion work.
OUTLINE
Property Inspection and Initial Observations
- Speaker 9 mentions that Walter and Shannon will be opening doors and handling appliances.
- Speaker 1 discusses the old water heater and the tankless system, emphasizing the importance of noting it down for annual inspections.
- Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss ceiling issues, with Speaker 1 suggesting that only a specific section needs re-taping.
- Speaker 1 mentions using basic light fixtures from Home Depot, and Speaker 2 talks about cost-effectiveness.
TV and Appliance Preparation
- Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss the TV and the need for prep work, including adjustments to the weight-ready list.
- Speaker 2 explains the removal of appliances and fixtures, emphasizing the need for general feed leaders.
- Speaker 1 mentions the tiles and the decision to replace them, noting that the crack is not spreading.
- Speaker 2 talks about sealing cracks with silicone to prevent seepage and noise from tenants.
HVAC and Ductwork Issues
- Speaker 6 and Speaker 4 discuss the condition of the AC filters and the need for regular changes to prevent dirt buildup.
- Speaker 1 mentions a full replacement of the AC system, but the ducts remain original.
- Speaker 2 shares an experience from another property where missing ductwork fabric caused issues with the new AC system.
- Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss the impact of the new AC system on the existing ductwork and the need for further investigation.
Electrical and Lighting Concerns
- Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss the under-mount lights that do not work and the lack of ground in the house.
- Speaker 2 suggests removing the under-mount lights to save money and avoid maintenance costs.
- Speaker 1 mentions a coffee machine with a water filter and the decision to remove it for convenience.
- Speaker 2 recommends keeping the washer and dryer as they fit perfectly and are the financial responsibility of the tenants.
Appliance and Furniture Management
- Speaker 1 asks for recommendations on keeping appliances, and Speaker 2 advises keeping them due to their fit and the financial responsibility of the tenants.
- Speaker 2 explains the process of reimbursing for appliance repairs and the possibility of tenants providing their own appliances.
- Speaker 1 mentions the age of the appliances and their good condition.
- Speaker 2 discusses the maintenance of the microwave and the possibility of replacing it if it stops working.
Property Maintenance and Cleanup
- Speaker 2 and Speaker 4 discuss the need for a "Walt pile" of components for the home, including AC and other parts.
- Speaker 2 explains the process of handling yard cleanup and haul-off, including the need for a large cleanup in the spring.
- Speaker 2 mentions the importance of maintaining the yard and the responsibilities of tenants in keeping it clear of debris.
- Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss the impact of trees on the property, including the need for regular maintenance and the potential for damage during storms.
Pest Control and Exclusion Work
- Speaker 8 asks about pest control responsibilities, and Speaker 2 explains that tenants are responsible for pest control and exclusion work.
- Speaker 2 mentions the need for a bait box and the importance of regular exclusion work.
- Speaker 8 expresses concerns about sending pest control services during certain times, and Speaker 2 suggests keeping the lease as is.
- Speaker 2 discusses the strategy for leasing and the importance of signing leases before the peak season.
Final Preparations and Budget Considerations
- Speaker 2 mentions the need for a summary of the property's condition and the outstanding issues, including yard cleanup and ceiling repairs.
- Speaker 1 discusses the budget considerations for the property turnover and the impact on cash flow.
- Speaker 2 shares an example of a whole-house turnover, including painting and carpeting, to provide a cost estimate.
- Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss the importance of preparing for potential issues and the need for a detailed plan for property maintenance.
ACTION ITEMS
[ ] @Alysia Conway - Provide a summary of the next steps to the owner.
[ ] Have Sergio inspect and address the ceiling issue.
[ ] Remove the under-cabinet lights that are not functioning.
[ ] Remove the water filter setup under the cabinet.
[ ] Arrange for a yard cleanup, roof cleaning, and haul-off of any remaining items.
Have Walter provide a makeready bid & send it to owner.
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Unknown Speaker 0:00
Okay, so.
Speaker 1 0:22
Good morning. Security, But Lord,
Speaker 2 0:40
it's okay if you don't want to, yeah, we'll be very fast. Okay, yeah, no worries. Okay, we'll be right. If
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you want to start over there, I'll just finish this
Speaker 2 0:52
problem. Okay, Brian Wolf and Shannon are gonna probably be opening doors and things like that. Okay,
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be on all these appliances we walk through, any sort
Unknown Speaker 1:14
of pending, what's the closet.
Speaker 3 1:36
That was our old water here, and then we put the tank list on the outside. Okay?
Speaker 4 1:45
Tankless is something that we always want to make sure we have in the property notes as well, because when we do the annual inspection, we'll come back and we'll get make sure that they have instructions on how to deal with that access we
Speaker 3 2:02
should about the ceiling stuff. This is, this is what we're referencing. This section was, like, the tape was, was coming off, and I don't, you know, we talked about how, yeah, so if we were to like we were to fix this section of Let Me tape and float. I mean, I don't think, I don't think any, I don't think the whole ceiling needs to be re taped. I don't think so either. I agree, honey.
Speaker 4 2:34
And it looks just like everything is just like a flat white it
Unknown Speaker 2:38
is, it is, I get an I have a page.
Speaker 3 2:41
It's just the it's the just the, it's the I have a five gallon. It's not a kills, it's just the, it's just the basic light from Home Depot. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 3:02
it's sometimes it's more cost
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effective if you just like, yeah, they're all outside.
Unknown Speaker 3:18
And then fixtures like,
Unknown Speaker 3:23
this is our baby, but we can
Speaker 3 3:25
keep it. You. Source that from Marburger farm. Did you really from where Marburger is when you go out to round top Italian? Oh, wow. I want to put that in your new slide. I love it, but
Unknown Speaker 3:43
I think it looks really good here.
Speaker 3 3:48
The TV would recommend them, or the TV is mine. Would you recommend? I just take that. Yes, that's correct. So then you would need to do some prep. Sure.
Speaker 4 4:01
TV outlined. What will come back. We will make adjustments to this. We're going to receive a weight ready list from us, and there's always a little bit of adjustment. We want to the general feed leaders. We're going to remove anything that you own, the other the appliances and the fixtures, right? We're going to remove all those things.
Unknown Speaker 4:26
We're okay. Open Doors Down. Okay.
Speaker 5 4:40
The tile there.
Speaker 3 4:47
Never decided to do that out and replace I do have those tiles, however, that crack is not spread or anything like that. But when we put the tiles out, I put them on too tight,
Unknown Speaker 5:02
I did the bathroom. Oh, wow, they look great.
Speaker 3 5:07
Unfortunately, the this house, as old as it is, it's funny, like, oh, I should have done the tiles in a
Speaker 4 5:19
wet in the summer, spring or something like this, right? Yeah. So when I see things like that, here's what I say. We we don't try to make a good thing great, right? So we're going to keep an eye on it. Walter is going to seal it like a silicone seal, so that nothing is seeping through, and we don't start hearing things from tenants, like one of them's popping off. If something's popping off, then we're gonna fix it. This is we don't try to make a good thing. Great. It's
Speaker 4 5:53
hard to see, but it's just on the other side of this glass panel, meeting the ceiling the cracks. There's a seam line right here, I'm sorry I'm eating the ceiling here,
Unknown Speaker 6:20
work, Alyssa. This one is
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2019, this
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is the one that came in.
Unknown Speaker 6:49
Yeah, I've been in here like that filter, yeah,
Speaker 6 7:01
look good because stuff
Unknown Speaker 7:13
around. A little
Unknown Speaker 7:18
concerning, but the filters clean.
Unknown Speaker 7:22
What would that be from just dirt? Normally
Speaker 7 7:25
it's the people are changing AC filters enough, and what happens is the dirt starts going through. The filter, sucks it through, the coal starts blowing through the vents.
Unknown Speaker 7:32
We replaced this system. We
Speaker 3 7:36
did a full replacement. They didn't replace the ducks. So the ducks would have been original.
Speaker 4 7:40
It could be some, some funk in there that's blowing out. We just, we had another property in South Austin that we replaced four of the ductwork. So four duct vents, right? Like, what they were doing is they were blowing this little chunky pieces on the primary bedroom, like pillows. And so what we've noticed when went to the attic is that the duct work was missing. Was was missing the
Unknown Speaker 8:15
fabric, thank you, the insulation
Speaker 4 8:19
around hole in it, okay, something happened in the attic. And so what was happening is that we have put a new AC system, and, like, one to two years ago, and I think that, just like the power from the new system is just making stuff like out. So that's something we could look into. What that turns into with tenants in place, sometimes is a little here,
Unknown Speaker 8:40
almost like, what is that
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that run like, right? Yeah, because
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both of those other two bedrooms are obviously and this one's fine foot ceilings.
Speaker 3 8:58
Yeah, I forgot house. How tight this feels. We
Unknown Speaker 9:06
had our first son here, and we're like, we just feel claustrophobic,
Speaker 4 9:10
crazy. I had, I had a condo off of spice food springs, where we brought my son home and just a little patio outside. And he's in massive southern career, so I feel you, this
Unknown Speaker 9:21
is brand new. Okay,
Unknown Speaker 9:23
it's, it's catching a little bit in this, this
Unknown Speaker 9:27
drawer system right here, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4 9:31
if there's a way down at the bottom this component,
Speaker 3 9:39
these the under mount lights do not work, so probably it's from so I replaced this plug just to see if it was like a it has and it was recording power. It's recording that it's wired correctly. This house doesn't have ground, by the way. Well, okay, so that's why I put GFCIs a lot of places, right? These older places just never had it wrong. So, so
Speaker 4 10:06
what I'm going to do with that is I'm just, I would recommend, and this is what I want to do to save you money, just
Unknown Speaker 10:13
remove it completely. Got it. Yep,
Speaker 2 10:18
water. This little water is this connected. Here it
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was. So I had a different I had,
Unknown Speaker 10:25
like a coffee machine.
Speaker 3 10:29
It's kind of like a Jura. Okay, cool. So I had, instead of pulling the water filter off to fill it all the time, I just beautiful that we can remove that.
Speaker 4 10:40
Okay, we should do that as well. We don't want to, like, send Walter out to keep maintaining under cabinet lights. Is there anything else in here that you want to point out to us? The washer dryers? Do those belong to you? They do.
Speaker 3 10:57
Would you recommend, though, that I take them, I
Speaker 4 11:00
recommend that you keep them, because they fit so perfectly. Unless you need them, I do not get them. Okay? So washer, dryer in this fridge, these appliances are going to be at the financial the maintenance of them will be at the financial responsibility of the tenants. Perfect. You're responsible for the connections to all three of these. When these we will still send an appliance vendor out, yes, put it on the tenant ledger so you might see it, but you'll be reimbursed in arrears when they stop working, or the repairs like $900 or something. And it doesn't make financial sense, then guess what? It goes away forever. You don't buy a new one, and the tenant is responsible for bringing and providing their own so if that ever happens, it needs to fit into this space here, obviously, right? So this, this may should be a front load, yeah, it may be. That's why, exactly why you want to leave these here, right? Okay,
Speaker 3 11:59
yeah. And they are older too. I mean, we bought them, they're 18. They're
Speaker 4 12:07
not that old. So what? Because they fit like just so they look fine there too. I think they look great. Um, tenants have two options. They can, you know, bring or provide their own, or they can rent them. And so they'd have to rent this particular one if this exact cut out in space becomes some sort of challenge for us. I'll let you know, like you'll just hear from me, and I'll let you know. Okay, do you own the microwave? Yes, okay, you own the microwave. Okay. Is it old? No, okay, a little
Speaker 3 12:39
one. There's no space for it, so we bought a countertop one. Okay.
Speaker 4 12:43
In most instances, the microwave is maintained and provided by the landlord. So if it stops working, I may or may not repair this one. I may replace it, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool,
Speaker 3 12:59
yeah. Nothing else. I don't think that a little quirky. Okay, cool. You want to Yeah, absolutely. Thank you guys so much. It
Unknown Speaker 13:20
could be worse weather, right? I know beautiful. City,
Speaker 3 13:32
of Boston, it was at least so they
Speaker 3 13:58
said that that should be, it's holding it's holding attention. I'll get this ripped off. I had this prep for Twitter.
Unknown Speaker 14:08
That's the best prep I've seen. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 14:12
these are really challenging. I'm gonna take a picture.
Unknown Speaker 14:19
Was that moving blanket in a trash bag. Okay, that we have problems with those.
Speaker 4 14:28
Yeah. I mean, they will, they explode. They're they're only made to withstand a certain negative temperature. The pieces inside are plastic. Yes, they combust themselves. They they expand and break apart. Yeah, a better way to put that. This is 2019
Unknown Speaker 14:44
as well. Yeah. Do
Speaker 4 14:49
you have any extra pieces of this siding in your garage? I do not.
Unknown Speaker 14:56
I do have this paint, though,
Speaker 4 14:57
cool. Okay, all that good stuff. So if this were still your home, we would call putting together what's called a Walt pile. So any components that go with the home, you can still do this, obviously, because you're going to come grab your TV and if you need Walter remove it, we can do all those things, but it's called the Walt pile, so any like extra AC, yeah, it's cheaper for you use those components if they're usable, right? So Walter pile, and it's usually located in the garage.
Unknown Speaker 15:29
Yes, we can go check out the garage.
Unknown Speaker 15:55
Hello and doors, okay, and then have
Speaker 7 15:58
five years exactly what the pile looks like normally. There's a back right corner back there.
Unknown Speaker 16:06
And then is that you're seeing, yeah, there's more paint
Unknown Speaker 16:09
back there's my bug out. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 16:12
hello. This is kind of I haven't done my workshop in here, you have electric. You have electric in here. I do have
Unknown Speaker 16:21
power right here we ran in. We ran, I ran
Unknown Speaker 16:29
an exterior Gotcha. And
Speaker 3 16:31
these are all run, if you ever want to find that that circuit there is the inside plug in the living room,
Unknown Speaker 16:40
gotcha, because controlling Yeah, gotcha. And then that's
Unknown Speaker 16:46
where we have we can leave.
Speaker 4 16:48
Walter likes to take them down. Oh, he does, so that we don't have to maintain them for you. Okay.
Speaker 7 16:54
What happens is bulbs below, okay? Or squirrels chew on wires. Okay. What I would do if you want the cable to stay there? Yeah, we can leave the cable there that way, or it's not driving, but I would just take the lights off. Okay, all right, you'd be surprised how many of them. We try to simplify it, because exactly girls will get in there and chew on that, which, of course, trips every GFCI, and then you have an electrician coming out going, Okay, I don't know what school. I don't know why it's tripped. It's like, a haul off so we could pick up do
Unknown Speaker 17:28
like branches. That's my fault. I
Unknown Speaker 17:40
eight hours. That's mine as well. Yes, you're going to create a run,
Unknown Speaker 17:50
whatever he leaves. We're going to hold the
Unknown Speaker 17:54
left. Yeah, we've got a very small list of things that we have all the way. Yeah, clean
Speaker 4 18:16
up. We did all them away this asbestos siding. You can get it though, yeah, and VR, my sighting guy can source it for us.
Unknown Speaker 18:25
We're not gonna again.
Speaker 4 18:31
We're gonna do a large cleanup. You need it for the springtime, right? So front and back yard cleanup. So this would be lost pines and the roof and Walter would probably do the haul off. We don't want to have to haul off. You see what I'm saying, because there's a bug shaky today, but we don't want you having a Walt haul off and a landscaping, right? So we'll have to figure that out. I told her in preparation,
Speaker 4 19:07
it took, yeah, and that's why you called me, right, because you're still traumatized from the
Unknown Speaker 19:19
week past traumas run.
Speaker 8 19:26
And then there's one more exterior exterior closet I can show
Unknown Speaker 19:29
you. Okay, yes, I
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property
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code, yeah, you
Unknown Speaker 20:02
guys get in here. You got everything you need. Okay,
Unknown Speaker 20:14
needs to be done in there, but
Speaker 4 20:15
we now call it all out, and we do not try to improve, nope, things like this. So unless there were, like, a water leak or something like that, but that's it. This, I think we're gonna put on there's a character
Unknown Speaker 20:31
yourself.
Speaker 4 20:34
We are going to have the locks the same, right, correct.
Speaker 7 20:41
So that will change to just a regular key block
Speaker 4 20:44
with no pen pal, yes, if you want to say that, Alyssa, let's make a note. He's going to keep the TV in the living room. He's going to keep this particular auto lock.
Speaker 3 20:57
They'll take it. Well, it's ours, but it transferred service, so it's technically part of the home.
Speaker 4 21:04
Okay, Marvin, you're gonna take it with you, okay? We're gonna give it to you, and we're gonna put regular, no one,
Unknown Speaker 21:11
a regular button,
Speaker 8 21:14
not wired, though, that's fine. We'll just do a wireless Okay,
Speaker 4 21:19
grill. Grill. What? Yes, the grills.
Unknown Speaker 21:31
We'll leave the wires, the cables.
Unknown Speaker 21:36
We're making this list so that, if
Speaker 4 21:39
you'd like us to make a Ryan pile for young. We've got utilities here. They're in your name, right? They're in my name, okay, you've got Water and Electric with City of Austin. You have gas here with Texas gas services, okay, what day is their trash day? Here? Thursdays. Thursdays, okay? And mailbox here is that perfect? Does it? Does mail get delivered here? Okay?
Unknown Speaker 22:10
You mean, for me,
Speaker 7 22:12
you'd be surprised. People have mailboxes on the walls and then they have a community mailbox.
Speaker 4 22:18
Yeah, they've changed it from like a walking route into like something else over time, Lost Pines is coming out. Do you want to handle the ceiling paint in here? Or would you like us to have Sergio take a look at it? Okay, we're gonna have Sergio also. That'll be another vendor that we're gonna have once they're out. We're gonna get you a number for that, so that number will not be included in malt number. What is probably going to be included in your number is perhaps the door, touch ups
Speaker 7 22:47
door, touch up washing walls and touch up minor touch up, look like very much. Yeah, it didn't
Speaker 3 22:51
look yeah. I mean, I noticed a couple of things I hadn't noticed before. I think the cat
Speaker 7 22:56
gets it some dog. And I was like, Oh, that looks like cat, actually.
Speaker 4 23:02
Yes, it has a latex paint on your doors. And so that's why it's even more it's even more susceptible to, like healing, almost like a nail polish. Yes, anything else on your list that we you want to give them a quick two minute round,
Speaker 7 23:20
four blinds, okay, other than that, thresholds that you saw, the cracks that were siliconing in there. I mean, most of its minor stuff, we need to put in a CO detector. So don't have one,
Speaker 3 23:33
yeah, I guess I haven't checked the batteries on those. All
Speaker 7 23:37
the smoke detectors are there. But we need to do a CO detector as well. We'll put it right over your thermostat. Those are also co so what we'll do is we'll move one into the thermostat, because your your carbon is lighter than air or smoke. So what happens is, in property code, I why they actually make those things that go up high? I don't know. Shouldn't be there. They should be mounted at chest level, because the idea is, if you're sitting on the couch or laying down, then it goes off easier. They're like, 18 bucks, not like they're super expensive. What we do is we mount them right under the thermostat. Yep, that way the tenant looks at it all the time and can remember to change those batteries. If you
Speaker 4 24:15
wouldn't mind, Ryan's going to utilize this Make ready list to help support, like the security deposit disposition with the tenants. So if we perhaps might line item a little bit more than we normally do, and separate what you guys might consider tenant versus that would be really helpful,
Speaker 3 24:36
like the whatever our you know, the rates for
Unknown Speaker 24:39
sure touch up flavor material
Speaker 7 24:42
Exactly. That's exactly. We'll split it stuff like that. Material you have it, but we'll split it out that we can go touch up paint. Obviously, it's their cat, yeah, them poking holes in the walls, things like that. So, yeah, the
Speaker 4 24:53
blinds. And then, of course, you're going to need to cross reference with their movement and what it looks like and those sorts of things. But this price. Pricing will help you expedite whatever you need to do. Thank you guys. Very much.
Speaker 7 25:07
Appreciate you. We'll get you a vanilla I'm sure it'll be this afternoon. Walter. Let them pick everybody.
Speaker 4 25:20
Human, like, they say, super busy. So let them hit the road and then answer any, you know, other high level questions that you might have for looking at
Unknown Speaker 25:28
that yard. My God, is
Speaker 3 25:33
horrendous. So, you know, like, even, like, this was all mulch before all the foods came in and
Unknown Speaker 25:42
stuff, I don't know. So, what do we want to do? Yeah, super easy. We're
Speaker 4 25:45
gonna go ahead and we're gonna get our landscape team to mulch your yard and do a yard cleanup. We're gonna get they're gonna blow everything off the roof and do a big cleanup. That is, we probably should have them do the haul off for the belongings as well. Not that Walter price is any different, but what they do is they do it by the yard of the trailer. Got it right, and so that's how the dump charges them, or whatever. You know, some people take it to land. And so I think we'll have lost pines, handle, get haul off. And so they will not be able to give us a total haul off price until the tenants are out. But what we'll do is we'll have them. They're going to come by. We're not they're going to look over the fence. They'll do a full yard cleanup, blow off the roof, and if they're I don't see gutters, no gutters, so we would normally have them do a gutter clean out. If they're on the roof, and there's a tree within three feet, we're gonna have them clear the roof within three feet, while they're up there, Ryan, they're up there, right? Yes,
Speaker 8 26:49
I don't other than, other than his oak that's coming across. I don't know. I had them turn back.
Speaker 4 26:56
There's not a lot. But while someone's up there, you always want to do it. And so I don't think that that's going to add much. Add much. We want to focus on getting, like, the most economical costs that link out of their visit, right? And the trees are just a continuous upkeep. So we'll do full yard cleanup. We don't have an irrigation. We'll mulch this. I mean, these look great. It just needs a cleanup. Yeah,
Unknown Speaker 27:20
we didn't see it before. Yeah, these, like,
Unknown Speaker 27:27
these look phenomenal.
Unknown Speaker 27:30
I think probably a lot of the
Speaker 9 27:34
water runoff helps. I live here, right around the corner, not too far from here, and I don't have gutters either. And you live around the corner? Yeah, pretty much. I mean, I just moved, but off of South first, and I don't have gutters either. So everything is like growing right in my front little entryway there, yeah. So, so what we do is we always
Speaker 4 27:52
start the yard, we give the tenants a really great baseline, and then we hand over the yard care to them, yep, and they do not
Speaker 3 28:01
like so obviously that was not part of our stipulation for this place. It was like, try to obviously be interested
Unknown Speaker 28:10
in, but if they don't, you know what is, what is kind
Speaker 4 28:14
of repercussion. So we write it in the lease that they are responsible for yard care, and the yard care is keeping it clear of debris, mowing, watering, edging, weeding, and able to maintain a healthy lawn. They are not responsible for the trees. Sometimes people keep out of yarn, and so someone might not be a lawn care expert. Once we move a tenant in here, Alysia is going to come meet them, and she's going to walk them through the entire entirety of the home. She'll tell them, you know, about the washer dryer. She'll tell them about storage unit back there. And what is the normal script that you give them about lawn care of a large home and their responsibility? I
Speaker 9 28:53
would typically, I would typically tell them, like, if they're not really like hands on, or familiar with like mowing or weeding things like that. I'm happy to give them a very great example of a very cost friendly company that we trust and use all the time. We get
Speaker 4 29:07
vendors, the same vendor that came out here and did this, and she'll share that with them in the onboarding like here, use them. They're 55 bucks two times a month. So we do that. We are not driving by your property every other week looking at the lawn. So if you hear anything from anyone, you send it to Adrian, and Adrian becomes your neighbor, with your neighbors. Right. Aside from that, I think that, well, we will have our annual inspection, so we'll be out here, and it's Texas. We don't know what's going to happen with the drought this summer. I mean, this looks, looks pretty good. Everything needs to be mowed. It's all natural. There's
Speaker 3 29:47
into grass. So in summer and late fall, this goes completely dormant, and it looks like brown, brown. So, yeah, you know, prior to that, you know, maybe we communicate, okay, go ahead and, like, scalp it, you know, for the last row of the year or something. It probably
Speaker 4 30:09
will. It's, this is also one of those things that it's sort of like, okay,
Unknown Speaker 30:15
yeah, we're flipping our switch
Speaker 4 30:18
from true, but, but for showings, we want to give them an incredible baseline, and we will hope that someone understands Texas landscaping if they're mowing it, yeah, and it gets a great mow. I'm like, we're happy. We're happy, happy, happy. I love all the trees.
Speaker 3 30:35
Yeah, the trees used to cause us so much stress. Why? Because they're big boys in the yard and the big boys in the yard, and you get wind storms, we get the ice storms. You could have seen this neighborhood during the ice storm.
Unknown Speaker 30:52
The second one was, the second
Speaker 3 30:57
one looks like, yeah, the tornado had come through. Yeah. It was unbelievable. It was unbelievable. Like, everything that fell, the one that fell in the car line, we had a big one in the yard, and we had a big one in the street. And I'm like, how, how did we not have Thank you tree guys, one of these come down. So
Speaker 4 31:17
that's pretty incredible. I in the neighborhood I live in, it's called majestic oaks, and it looked I've it resonated with me. I mean, we lost, we have a lot of big boys like this, right? And I lost maybe of
Unknown Speaker 31:34
your my own trees in my backyard. Was that
Unknown Speaker 31:39
that was 2022 wasn't it
Speaker 3 31:42
so like, so these aren't protected, right? Right? If there was ever an issue with tenants or that, you know, we felt like it was a hazard,
Unknown Speaker 31:53
is it not 19 inches in diameter?
Speaker 3 31:55
These are just elm. So these are invasive elm, so I don't know if they do require,
Speaker 4 32:02
I would have not my yard guy do it, but I take it. I'd have someone else just triple confirm I just bought, not just but one time, I purchased $5,000 worth of replanted trees because of a chop down that Eric and I did at one at his property. The neighbor was really, really devastated, and so she called City of Austin. They stopped taking her calls because she was so we took that center down because the roots were affecting her house and it was causing congregation.
Unknown Speaker 32:40
So it was, it had met its life expectancy,
Speaker 3 32:44
and it was time to do, yeah, these ones. Those are definitely perfect. Yes, these ones, these live oaks, I think they he and arborist out to look at these just because of the way it grew over our house. You know, the arborist felt like there's no way that that thing could just pull out and come out on on our house, just with this root system going under all houses over here. But they're also, you know, 120
Speaker 4 33:12
years old at least. Yeah, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's just that's the master that was terrified. You know, listen, you cannot another great example. I've got a house on balconies. Do you know balconies? Yeah, beautiful street, right? One of Austin's, like, coolest streets. And the house is just an old ranch style single story. And there is a double, double doozy like this right outside the the primary bedroom. And I had a 10 minute, and then she goes, I can create every time, you know, the wind blows and, well, they moved to Dallas, and I've got someone else in there now, and I haven't heard a word about the wind blow. So it just depends. You
Unknown Speaker 33:55
can't control trees, right? You know you can do after kind of walking.
Unknown Speaker 34:04
Range that that we estimated 25 are you gonna start at 25 we're gonna double check pumps again in about
Speaker 4 34:22
you. Up. Yeah, we've got a whole we've got spring break, and we've got school, you know, so we've got a whole round of other leases. We're going to try to start and try to get as much as we can, right, but we're going to look at the comparables at that time for a recent and leasing season, because the numbers will hopefully be higher. But, yeah, I don't there's nothing in here. I'm not worried about anything. Yeah, it's just strategy at this point. That's it. Okay? That's it. That's it. In a great make ready,
Speaker 8 34:52
shape of the property. Had you feel? Oh, good. Super cute.
Speaker 4 34:57
That's great. I am thinking that
Unknown Speaker 35:04
the pest control thing. I
Speaker 8 35:06
mean, we're on a I'm on a quarterly. Do we just turn that over?
Speaker 4 35:13
We, we don't require any of our tenants to have they're responsible for pest control. But your pests are not coming they're not coming from trash. They they may be coming from, you mean the rats, I'm sorry, yeah, these houses.
Speaker 9 35:36
Sorry, I say pest. I know. I call them pests. Yeah, that's right. Razz,
Unknown Speaker 35:46
and then also you've got trees overhanging those,
Unknown Speaker 35:48
right? I mean, it looks like everything,
Speaker 2 35:55
yeah, I feel like your vent sealed up and everything sealed even here, even tea from
Speaker 4 36:11
you. So here's what we do. You know, we just keep the lease the way it is, and they're responsible for pest control. And what this is going to mean to you is that you're going to keep the bait box. They're going to be responsible for that and calling pest control to come to you about that spare money you're going to be responsible for the exclusion work. Just continued exclusion
Speaker 8 36:33
work. Yes, I'm not going to send him out for exclusion work on a Thursday.
Unknown Speaker 36:42
But you, I mean, we've got our staff
Unknown Speaker 36:50
service to rebate, yeah, so
Unknown Speaker 36:51
that's your to do, and your to do is to let more
Unknown Speaker 37:00
when they're moving out, do better in recent
Unknown Speaker 37:08
season, we don't want to miss that window,
Speaker 4 37:16
because this is this going to take us seven to 14 days? Yeah, I think so, just because the time we but what we'll do is we'll want to sign in on which one first before that, so that we know who we're sending every year we can send, you know, yard payments. Okay, cool, yeah, I will look
Unknown Speaker 37:42
forward to look forward
Unknown Speaker 37:44
to Monday, you're
Speaker 4 37:45
going to hear from Alysia. She'll send you a summary of what we've got so far, right? And then the two, the two, three bullet points on the outlier, or the things that we're waiting on, which are yard cleanup question mark and haul off. And then also the ceiling. We're gonna figure that out. He's got this, not that you need scaffolding, but you do if you're gonna do like replace sheet, yeah,
Speaker 8 38:10
hopefully he doesn't have to replace all that insulation is gonna come down with it, but
Unknown Speaker 38:17
hopefully just a tape,
Speaker 4 38:20
but you have plywood in between the two, right? And you just have that sheet rock, and you've got all that new insulation on top of it. We'll check it out.
Unknown Speaker 38:32
So there should be, like, a decking, and
Unknown Speaker 38:36
there's deck, it's tied up there, yeah?
Speaker 4 38:40
So access, yeah, so it should, there should be, like a decking in between floors, like a roof, like you've got your shingles in a decking, which is what I thought. What I'm thinking might be, like the whole, like, the big picture is that insulation is heavy, yeah, and it could be load bearing on top of that, and so if we replace it, and then it happens again. So that is something you investigate, yeah, I like this. I like that kind of thing. I don't want to be replacing your sheet rock all the time, years, yeah. But I also am not, like always Jackie, for sure, for
Speaker 3 39:24
sure. Yeah, we're and we're preparing, obviously, with, you know, with your with your commission and stuff like that, to kind of be out of commission, of receiving payment, you know, for at least, you know, three months,
Unknown Speaker 39:39
you know, hopefully,
Speaker 3 39:41
you know, taking that into consideration and budgeting against, kind of, okay, that's gonna be 6500 bucks versus, and also,
Unknown Speaker 39:53
like, 10s of 1000s of dollars.
Speaker 4 39:57
Yeah, we just did, I mean, good example. We did property up in wells branch like land point village, that Parker Lane over there, well lived in. The owners left is what they were when we're in major life change. And we did paint whole house, whole house upstairs and downstairs Sergio was at about five grand whole house paint and carpet 1500 waltz make ready was about three because it had a haul off so that was like a whole house turnover.
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