Housesitting llaws (tenants, evict, renter, landlord)

[Gomez69]

Can a manager except the rent from the housesitter on the homeowne behalf??

[Kim in FL]

Originally Posted by Gomez69

Can a manager except the rent from the housesitter on the homeowne behalf??

Yes, a manager can/will accept rent from a house sitter (or anyone else) as long as the manager is aware of the situation beforehand. Just write a check like you normally do, but maybe ask your sitter to get a receipt.

If you plan on leaving your unit for a length of time and plan on having someone staying in it, you need to talk with your manager/landlord and let them know all the details. They may or may not allow a house sitter stay in the unit...you won't know until you ask.

[chet everett]

If the OP is suggesting that they, as a "housesitter" would write a check to the landlord I would consider this an unapproved sublease. If the OP has a check written out by the regular renter my question would be why was the "housesitter" even involved? Just have the regular renter mail the check for the lease...

Technically speaking there are laws that would allow a landlord to evict the "housesitter" as an unauthorized subleasor AND demand rent from the regular tenant. The grey area might be if the regular renter claimed this was merely an "unsupervised guest". Most of the cases that I recall like this involve lots of disruptive type tenants who may be engaged in criminal activity. If the situation instead is a nice quiet "housesitter" odds are that the landlord never suspects that anything has changed...