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I am the owner of a 2 family home where my tenant is a single parent discharged from the Army about a year ago. She has children under 8 and moved in late last year. She is a student and receives a modified GI bill that pays her rent as long as she goes to school. Although she now makes payments each month, she is over $10k in arrears. I need to evict her in the most efficient and effective manner. She's a nice woman with nice children, but I cannot afford to not have rent payments made in full each month. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get her out? Quickly? I'd love to have her out by June 30th so that the apartment can be repainted and prepped for new tenants on July 15th.
I am the owner of a 2 family home where my tenant is a single parent discharged from the Army about a year ago. She has children under 8 and moved in late last year. She is a student and receives a modified GI bill that pays her rent as long as she goes to school. Although she now makes payments each month, she is over $10k in arrears. I need to evict her in the most efficient and effective manner. She's a nice woman with nice children, but I cannot afford to not have rent payments made in full each month. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get her out? Quickly? I'd love to have her out by June 30th so that the apartment can be repainted and prepped for new tenants on July 15th.
Did you have her sign a lease? Since it is your home (not sure what type of agreement you made with her) you have to give her 30 days notice to vacate the apt. Make sure to have a witness present when you give the 30 day notice. Also, send a certified mail 30 day letter notice. Make sure to document everything.
You can forget about kicking her out on June 30th. You need 30 days notice. Give her notice this month and by Aug 1st she needs to vacate the apt. She still has to pay the rent for June and July but not August.
I am the owner of a 2 family home where my tenant is a single parent discharged from the Army about a year ago. She has children under 8 and moved in late last year. She is a student and receives a modified GI bill that pays her rent as long as she goes to school. Although she now makes payments each month, she is over $10k in arrears. I need to evict her in the most efficient and effective manner. She's a nice woman with nice children, but I cannot afford to not have rent payments made in full each month. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get her out? Quickly? I'd love to have her out by June 30th so that the apartment can be repainted and prepped for new tenants on July 15th.
LOL....Forget about it..not gonna happen. Rental laws have been discussed over and over on here, and I am sure or at least hope you were familiar with the laws when you decided to become a land lord.
Get ready for that 6 month battle. You did not do anything when she was 1-2-5-7-9K behind? Why wait til 10? Seems a bit bad on your part. You may say you was being nice, but watch how nice she is if you ask her to leave in 9 days
I lived in a four family house way back in the stone age, we were friends with the LL, her words of wisdom were:
A single girl (woman) with children, can't pay the rent.
These old times really do know what they were talking about.
Unfortunetely you had to learn the hard way. The best way to get rent on time is have 2 regular working people, preferably a couple, that have real jobs, no section 8, welfare or any of that City benefit crap, but a couple that works for a reputable company.....see where I am going with this....
LOL....Forget about it..not gonna happen. Rental laws have been discussed over and over on here, and I am sure or at least hope you were familiar with the laws when you decided to become a land lord.
Get ready for that 6 month battle. You did not do anything when she was 1-2-5-7-9K behind? Why wait til 10? Seems a bit bad on your part. You may say you was being nice, but watch how nice she is if you ask her to leave in 9 days
Also, true! You accepted a pattern of payment. You have to concentrate on kicking her out now. Review the contract you made her sign (if there was one) and follow the guidelines that you created. I believe she is a month to month tenant unless you created a year lease. You need to give 30 days notice or else she can take you to court.
Next time, do a criminal and credit background check on a prospective tenant. Young professionals and married couple are the best tenants. Boyfriend/Girlfriend and single parents are not the best tenants. A unmarried couple can break up and create havok and a single parent well you already know...
I am the owner of a 2 family home where my tenant is a single parent discharged from the Army about a year ago. She has children under 8 and moved in late last year. She is a student and receives a modified GI bill that pays her rent as long as she goes to school. Although she now makes payments each month, she is over $10k in arrears. I need to evict her in the most efficient and effective manner. She's a nice woman with nice children, but I cannot afford to not have rent payments made in full each month. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get her out? Quickly? I'd love to have her out by June 30th so that the apartment can be repainted and prepped for new tenants on July 15th.
Does she have a lease or is she a month-to-month tenant? If she's a month-to-month, you need to send her a certified letter stating that you want her out of the apartment by July 30th. You can't kick her out in 10 days because it's against the law, you have to give her a 30 day notice. Then, you need to get an eviction letter which also gives her 30 days to move out. However, she can ask for a hearing which usually takes 6 months (it can be as quickly as 3 months or as long as 9 months). During those months waiting for hearing, she'll stay in the apartment rent-free.
You also need to state in the letter that she will not be getting her security deposit back because that was put towards her rent.
I am the owner of a 2 family home where my tenant is a single parent discharged from the Army about a year ago. She has children under 8 and moved in late last year. She is a student and receives a modified GI bill that pays her rent as long as she goes to school. Although she now makes payments each month, she is over $10k in arrears. I need to evict her in the most efficient and effective manner. She's a nice woman with nice children, but I cannot afford to not have rent payments made in full each month. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get her out? Quickly? I'd love to have her out by June 30th so that the apartment can be repainted and prepped for new tenants on July 15th.
i am extremely interested in finding out why exactly she was unable to pay the rent, especially considering that I plan to move to nyc and use my GI Bill to pay for my apartment. from my understanding, she should be receiving,at a bare minimum, 2k a month stipend as long as she attends school (to be honest it's probably closer to 3k to 3500 considering she has kids).
^this is true. i was wondering if maybe she's ran into problems getting her money (i know first hand how the government is quick to take, yet slow to give) or if she is not paying for some other reason.
I am the owner of a 2 family home where my tenant is a single parent discharged from the Army about a year ago. She has children under 8 and moved in late last year. She is a student and receives a modified GI bill that pays her rent as long as she goes to school. Although she now makes payments each month, she is over $10k in arrears. I need to evict her in the most efficient and effective manner. She's a nice woman with nice children, but I cannot afford to not have rent payments made in full each month. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get her out? Quickly? I'd love to have her out by June 30th so that the apartment can be repainted and prepped for new tenants on July 15th.
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