Landlords' Water Damage Woes in Chattanooga

12/24/2016 (Permalink)

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If you count college students from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga or Chattanooga State Community College as some of your tenants, their youth and inexperience with household maintenance can spell water damage disaster for you as a landlord. Even well-meaning student tenants are poor observers of potential water damage issues for their landlords. They ignore constantly running toilets, leave the freezer door ajar leading to melting frost, and fail to notice a leaky front loading washer door until some serious problems present. A landlord’s best friend when water damage in rental buildings comes calling is your local SERVPRO, able to find, repair, and restore any moisture issues your student tenants offer you.

Today’s student apartments often come with in-unit laundry facilities and full sized kitchen appliances. Because they are busy with studies, socializing, and internships, your student tenants frequently focus little attention on the commercial water damage that occurs when a Chattanooga undergrad adds too much detergent to a high-efficiency washer or a hard working ice maker bursts a water line under the kitchen cabinets between the fridge and the sink after a partying weekend. When the suds pour out the back of the washer or a steady drip, drip, drip causes ceiling damage under the bathroom; contaminated water has a chance to invade your rental unit. Bulging drywall, mold growth, and rotting floorboards under the laundry closet tiles are some of the challenges you might face when the students move out at the end of the term.

As groups of student, tenants come and go SERVPRO teams up with landlords to restore rental units back to their pre-water damage condition for the start of a new school year. Our technicians are great water detectives, able to follow the flow from a neglected washing machine or hushed-up shower curtain fail to make certain that all areas of water damage are remediated. Hidden moisture can seriously harm your investment in student rental apartment buildings or other rental units. Work with us to find the damage your tenants caused, documenting issues as the problems in the rental units are solved. Our records help you if you feel you must retain damage deposits and when the building inspector arrives to make sure all problems have been repaired among your rentals. Our experience and training ensure the water damage is fixed according to local codes.

When looking for a solid and steady partner in the student housing business SERVPRO of East Chattanooga comes to the rescue by restoring all manner of water damage. Call us anytime at (423) 326-1406 for fast, professional results.