Re: 85 year old tenant - Landlord Forum thread 337041

Re: 85 year old tenant by Anonymous on July 7, 2015 @12:11

Nicole, it appears you and I are the only responders who have any experience in this area. Like you, I have discovered over time and with various tenants exactly what the requirements are for assistance in my area, and it is not a walk in the park, make a phone call and walk away. To be anything truly useful, one would have to be persistent and have a greater knowledge of the tenant's personal information than I, as a landlord, care to have.

Taking care of the elderly or infirm is the business of the tenant's friends and family, and maybe the social services office. It is not the duty or business of the landlord to make decisions about the tenant's health or welfare. It's the landlord's job to run his business for profit.

OP's original statement merely said the tenant was 85, in poor health, and unable to pay rent. The first 2 issues have nothing to do with the landlord, but the third certainly does! A tenant of any age and heath who cannot pay rent is not a tenant. It's the landlords duty to his creditors to move this person along and quickly and painlessly as possible to make way for a paying tenant. Sometimes a simply Notice to Terminate will get the tenant moving toward whatever assistance they are able or qualified to use. If a landlord chooses any further actions, it because they want to, not because it's a good or bad business decision--it has nothing to do with the business.

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