Today was first day we mowed and it was a day of discovery. Two months ago I moved a family of 4 into a big 2br unit. It is 3 stories and has 3 doors. Last week I was at unit to return a food stamp form and I noted the front storm door was missing the pin that connects the automatic closer to door. The father told me the toddler daughter keeps pulling it out so they left it out. I told him it needs the closer and I would send someone to put a more permanent pin in. The unit is an old doctors office and the storm is over 40 inches wide, has a large window, exactly matches the other unit in duplex(they are side by side) and it is a very expensive door. It's also less than 2 years old. Today we found the back storm door completely removed, frame and all, and leaning against house. Female tenant stated she did not know what happened, then sent a text stating her hubby said it blew off in a big windstorm over a month ago and he picked it out of the yard and leaned it against house. I sent back, ' you mean it even blew the screws right out of the frame?' She sent back,' I'll go look for the screws.' LOL tenants fail sarcasm detection.

Then we found side door had closer disconnected and no longer closes.

I sent text and written notice that she is required to inform me of damages like lost doors to me, because I really care when my property is damaged.

What do they have against doors?

I once found one of my interior doors in the yard, serving as a target for knife-throwing practice. A sign of worse things to come...

Evidently your storm door was more of a nuisance to your tenants than a valuable energy-saving feature.

Figure out your expenses for repair and reattachment and bill them NOW for their damage, put the door in storage until they move out.

CX nailed it - they don't want storm doors. Oblige them. Leave the frame on the house, so you can put them back on someday, but put the doors in storage before they get ruined.

And you will have to do inspections to catch them right away on other stuff. Be strict about billing and COLLECTING the repair money right away, if there is any hope of training them to be better.

I had a storm door get ripped off a house by the wind - pulled out the screws and tore up the wood underneath really bad. Now there is nothing solid to install another one to, IF I wanted to.

Lana,

Toddler and pin? How? They are tricky to remove.

Just say no to storm doors and carpet. Once they break they are gone.

(Fun fact to know and tell: Indiana HEALTH code, not building code, requires a self closing screen door on every exterior door. But have you seen screen doors on the front of a new $500,000 home?)

Me? I'd bill now for the replacement work but not re-install the door. Put it in storage for "someday I might want it".

BRAD

A person dealing with a Food stamp form and an expensive door are incompatible with each other.