Helllo all need advice. Im a new landlord and I rent out rooms. One of my renters wants to leave she signed a 6 month lease and was on a deposit was to be paid over a few months. Shes saying she doesnt feel safe living with the men here which is bs. These guys are quite and hardworking. I think she doesnt want to pay the rent and utilities.I also talked about her daily overnighters one of which was such a heavy smoker…could smell her through the door. So I reminded this rented it was a violation of lease Anyway how do i proceed im want to get this tart out of here asap.she wasnt even here two months. So i can rerent. I might sue her later…anyway. i want her out so i can rerent it to a better person.Should i write her a letter saying i dont give her permission to break her lease and give her a date she needs to gtfo by? I wont be accepting anymore rent from her…
Hi,
The law basically say's she can leave but would be responsible for the cost of rent until the room is re-rented!
You would have the right to keep her deposit and receive rents from her until the room is re-rented.
You can not refuse to except a lease (Rental) payment from her as she is under a lease, nor can you lock her out of the property.
If she wants to go let her and make sure she hands you a notice saying she intends to vacate on a certain date and make sure she understands she will lose her deposit and will be responsible for the rent for a few days, a week or a month or longer until you can re-rent the room.
If she is willing to be responsible you could offer to except payments for the “Gap” period between her move and re-renting! It saves you filing a small claims suit against her just to get a judgment with no guarantee of collecting the debt.
But the minute you try to remove her from a valid lease without cause now puts the liability and potential judgment on you.
GR
Well first she said today…now its this friday…can she recind a beaking the lease I really dont want her here anymore I think shes a flake and a danger…
njowner,
There’s the law, and then there’s what you can negotiate.
I would attempt to treat her with as much respect, and professionalism as possible, regardless if she’s a lying jennyass.
You really want unhappy tenants out of your business life.
I would say forget chasing her down for unpaid rent. Just offer her deposit back (moving money), in full, if she leaves the place in marketable condition.
Of course, she’ll only give it a lick and a promise, but you’ll give her the money anyway, because she’s saving you weeks of grief, and more credit/vacancy losses.
Don’t get hung up on this.
Frankly, this will sound mean, but this problem arose, because of your poor management approach, not the tenants.
Tenants consume, abuse, take advantage of, fight, and do whatever consumers do to landlords.
That’s why your first line of defense against a problem like this is making sure the tenant has something to lose.
In this case, she didn’t have much to lose (evidently).
Another issue of course, is that typical room-rental prospects have a ‘bad’ reason for wanting to rent a room.
In any event, I like huge deposits. That’s seems to cure 95% of my credit and vacancy losses, and about half my management headaches.
FWIW
Hi.
It has totally been eye opening.
I never saw this coming so I couldnt do anything about it. Shes not even been here a month and knew coming in that men live in the house one of them is also in kinda in law enforcement…but she doesnt know that… All of a sudden she doesnt feel unsafe.no crime suburb. Very quiet house. Everyone works Most of my housemates are consultants. She was a big departure from my niche…she works nights at a wawa which was really close by. In theory it should work the numbers did. Anyway now she said shes moving out Friday by 12 preferrably and that ads will go up this morning. I also informed her that I will need to show the room and i would give her as much notice as possible. She replied she would prefer that didnt happen with her stuff in there. Just how am I supposed to rerent if people cant seee what they are buying. All I said was that id give her as much notice as possible. Part of me thinks shes going to rescind her breaking of the lease.
When I first started doing this I had the large deposits but people wont bite.I think now I may take a credit card number or something.i dont know.
My rei goals are to have a multi for that elusive passive income.
You’re just gonna have to wait until she’s out, before you show the room.
That’s usually the rule anyway.
Few tenants will cooperate with the landlord trying to show their unit while they’re still living in it, unless the landlord makes it worth their while.
Offering the tenant a cash bonus (payable after they’re out), if you’re able to re-lease the unit before they’ve evacuated might be an option.
Prior to learning how to bribe the tenants to work with me, I had given up trying to show occupied units.
BTW, you’re going to need to post/deliver a notice to vacate, and/or put something in writing that acknowledges the tenant is moving out by a certain date.
We provide tenants with a blank “30-day Notice To Quit” for them to give to us, when they decide to move. This gives us time to plan, and it confirms their date and intent to evacuate.
Once we’ve received that signed form, we insist on the tenant’s compliance (if it suits us). Meantime, verbal commitments and statements mean absolutely nothing legally, and do not override whatever else we have in writing, if anything.
Next time you may want to introduce the tenant to the new roommates, and give everyone a chance to approve each other.
Mixing up the sexes in a situation like this is REALLY asking for trouble on so many levels, I can’t even start.
You need to pick a gender that will occupy this house; all woman, or all men.