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Several tenancies under one roof is a different job to one. Shared utilities, staggered lease ends, noise between units and a repair that affects everybody all need handling per unit, not per building.
Running several at once
Each unit gets its own ledger, its own condition report and its own lease end. A building-level total tells you nothing about which unit is late or which one keeps needing a plumber.
Lease ends are staggered deliberately. Three tenancies expiring the same month means three vacancies, three placement fees and three turnovers landing together in the slowest part of the year.
The detail is on multiplex and duplex and secondary suites, with reporting on accounting.
Setting it up
Separately metered, apportioned by a stated formula, or included. Written either way.
So vacancies arrive one at a time rather than three at once in a slow month.
Separate condition reports, because deposits are settled per tenancy and not per building.
Written into every lease, because units share walls and complaints arrive from inside.
The recurring friction
Noise, parking and shared laundry produce most of the correspondence in a small building, and every one of them is a dispute between two of your own tenants rather than with you.
They settle faster when the rule was in both leases from the start. Arbitrating between two people who each believed something different is slow and leaves somebody feeling singled out.
How requests are triaged is on maintenance, the reporting channel on tenant requests, and fees on management fees.
What we do here
What a small building needs most.
Multiplex questions
The questions small-building owners ask most.
Triplex in Hamilton with three leases and three renewal dates kept straight on one statement.
They raised the below-market basement rent at our Hamilton multiplex at renewal with comparables. Tenant stayed.
Shared utility split for the Hamilton building is shown on each tenant's ledger. No disputes between units.
The Hamilton triplex needed a new roof and they staged the work so no tenant lost use of a room. Invoice matched the accepted quote.
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Separate ledgers, staggered terms and utilities settled in writing before the next tenancy begins.
Ledger per unit · Terms staggered · Rules in every lease