The driveway on a rental house I own slopes up from the road quite a bit, but is plenty of clearance for your typical car, but is obviously problematic for lowered sports cars and such. My Pontiac GTP clear fine and its lowered 2".
Anyways, 2 weeks ago I had a guy come visit to see the place and pull up into the driveway with his lowered Honda CRX. He liked the place, grabbed an application and left. All of a sudden, I hear this loud pop and run out to see his front bumper laying on the driveway...he was pissed but said he'd just reattach it. It was already scrapped and beat up prior the incident.
Apparently, his shocks are cut so short or something, the chin of the front fascia got caught on the dip in the concrete and snapped off. Since then, some other tenants moved in. They have an Oldsmobile Alero, no issues, his car was just unreasonably low.
But then, this morning I receive a voicemail but from the earlier guy (not current tenants) requesting $500 to fix his bumper since it was my (shared with neighboring landlord) driveway and that my driveway should be sufficient to passenger cars since its "commercial". Of course, I'm not going to make any decision without estimates, but I don't even think I'm responsible.
I don't really want to get my insurance involved, but I hardly think I'm responsible for his incompetence to see the driveway was too steep for his car.
Thoughts?
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Anyways, 2 weeks ago I had a guy come visit to see the place and pull up into the driveway with his lowered Honda CRX. He liked the place, grabbed an application and left. All of a sudden, I hear this loud pop and run out to see his front bumper laying on the driveway...he was pissed but said he'd just reattach it. It was already scrapped and beat up prior the incident.
Apparently, his shocks are cut so short or something, the chin of the front fascia got caught on the dip in the concrete and snapped off. Since then, some other tenants moved in. They have an Oldsmobile Alero, no issues, his car was just unreasonably low.
But then, this morning I receive a voicemail but from the earlier guy (not current tenants) requesting $500 to fix his bumper since it was my (shared with neighboring landlord) driveway and that my driveway should be sufficient to passenger cars since its "commercial". Of course, I'm not going to make any decision without estimates, but I don't even think I'm responsible.
I don't really want to get my insurance involved, but I hardly think I'm responsible for his incompetence to see the driveway was too steep for his car.
Thoughts?
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