Re: Rent owed from covid shutdown - Landlord Forum thread 361116

Re: Rent owed from covid shutdown by Garry on February 9, 2021 @23:58

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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