Q to landlords: how do you deal with uncooperative tenants who pays rent on time

We have a big issue with crowding common hallway and stairs: shoes racks, strollers, other staff.
All explanations, warnings even beggin does not work. We stressed several times that common hallways are not included in rent to keep personal staff except mail, an umbrella strollers and kids chalks box. They just do not comply.
All our tenants are paying rent on time and we do not want to turn it into neverending fight.

Now we have a situation when we warned all tenants 3 weeks ahead that we plan to renovate hallway, paint, replace carpet etc, so, please, remove all your belongings. We plan to start this Wednesday. I sent another reminder because our contractor is there today and he asked me when to start because all this staff is in a hallway.

How do you enforce this things? We can decide not to renew leases, actually, all of them currently under market , but how do you deal with this kind of hassle in general?

Thank you!

lucie

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someonecalleddob | 1 year and 9 months ago

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keep it simple. we tell our tenants that hallways must always remain clear for “egress” and “fire safety” reasons.

justinromeu26 | 1 year and 9 months ago

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the same way you would deal with an 8 year old child who refuses to clean their toys up.

i took care of a 72 unit property once in North Carolina. one time i got to work and some red neck (the brother of a pro ball player) had parked his car on the lawn. I called my boss and he said “go tell him if the car is not removed from the lawn in one hour it will be towed”. problem solved.