Re: I don't want to renew the lease - Landlord Forum thread 360471

Re: I don't want to renew the lease by Garry on May 7, 2020 @21:06

These are difficult times we ALL live in this year. My suggestion is that you forget about selling your house till this fall. Your tenant is scared, just like ALL of us are, about the COVID-19 Pandemic. He feels SAFE where he's living now, and to try to find another place "out there", is really scary. If he can keep paying rent, let him, and assess the situation in the fall. Right now, you cannot force him to do ANYTHING, as no courts are operating til this summer or fall.

If you want in to do repairs, you may have to PAY him to let you in. My suggestion is that for every 2-4 hours on any given day that he lets you come over to do work, you reduce his rent by 1 day for that month. FOR INSTANCE------ if his rent is $900 per month, that's a daily rent rate of $30/day. If you go to his house 3 days next week, and work on your place 2-4 hours each day, you will deduct $90 off of his next months rent. AGAIN, these are hard times we are ALL living in. COOPERATION by BOTH parties, is the key to getting things done.

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