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I bought a two family house a few years ago. Both floors were rented out. Two years later, I need to move into the house myself and need to ask one of them to move. One of the tenants works as a teacher for NYC public school, and is very nasty, her family still owes me my rent deposit and keeps dragging on the payment date. They have the worst attitude when I ask about the payment. The other is sweet but is always late with rent, often two to three weeks late. This one works for some hospital and is unionized. They don't have a lease. So, technically, I can ask them to leave anytime. But I fear that if I ask them to leave, they will stop paying me rent until the court kicks them out. Of course, the court will order them to pay me all the rent they owe, but it would be a nightmare to go after them to collect the money. My question is, does the fact and one of them works for the public school makes it easier for collection agencies to go after her as she might fear bad repercussion at work from credit damage? Or not at all?