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Rent owed from covid shutdown
by unicorn1
on February 8, 2021 @15:10
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I own a commercial building in Nev. with a salon in it. They were forced to shut down for two months last spring due to covid leaving me a $2500.00 debt for those two months. They have been paying down the debt at one or two hundred dollars per month. They got down to $1600.00 and stopped paying anything two months ago. I just bought the building last June don't want to be a hard nose but I have bills to pay also! This tenant is demanding a no compete clause on the lease renewal which I have agreed to with no extra compensation for one year while I learn the landlord business, make improvements and start advertising. The salon owner closed escrow on a house at the same time she stopped paying down the back rent making me wonder if the money owed to me is now going into the tenants new house. Is anyone else effected by covid shutdown rent being owed?
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Re: Rent owed from covid shutdown
by Garry
on February 9, 2021 @23:58
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You should talk to an attorney about this. Yes, it's true you currently cannot evict a tenant for nonpayment of rent who is LIVING in a house or apartment. BUT-----the eviction moratorium does not affect a BUSINESS that same way.
The idea of the moratorium was to not force a person or family out of where they LIVE, because they are safer living in their OWN place for now, rather than living in an unknown place (or even end up being homeless.)
In the case of a BUSINESS, in a commercial setting, the person who has the business is not living there. If that business has no income due to the pandemic, they are still expected to pay rent-------until they can't! If they can't, you can evict the BUSINESS ( and therefore it's owner) because the owner is not being put out of where he is LIVING at.
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