Kind of dealing with something and wondering about some advice. My brother is 43 and moved into my mom's basement. He's had jobs that paid $100k, so he's more than capable of working but absolutely refuses to find a new job. He claims living at her house is temporary. He's been living in the basement since January 1st 2024, and my mom hasn't given him a dime. He must be running low on money; he let the car insurance expire, his phone plan die, his car registration expire, and he eats rice one time per day. My mom told him he has to get out at the end of December, or she's getting an eviction notice.

I'm at a loss about what he's going to do; he's beyond broke. So he gets evicted, then what? He's broke, and everything is expired.

I've skimmed other posts and read advice about finding jobs and all other crazy ideas about paying for other apartments or paying for psychologist. The idea is to get him out and be an adult he's 43 and refuses to find a job. My mom shouldn't have to sink thousands of dollars on a therapist for him to leave. that's delusional.

I am one of three tenants sharing a two-bedroom apartment. We are on a month-to-month lease.

I provided the apartment manager with written 30-day notice that I will be leaving the apartment, while my two roommates are staying. The manager replied that they will need written notice signed by me and my two roommates.

In practical terms: I am moving out over the weekend. (Paying my share of rent for this month, so I'm paying for 30 more days, but I will have physically vacated). I gave my roommates notice, but they are out of town and they won't be back until I've already moved out. Logistically, I don't know how I'm sending the apartment manager a piece of paper with all three of our signatures on it.

Relationally speaking: the interpersonal situation between my roommates and me has deteriorated dramatically over the last two months, largely due to the state of the apartment when I returned home from PhD field work over the summer. Even if not for the logistical hurdles, it is difficult for me to imagine I could get my roommates' cooperation to sign off on paperwork that's to my advantage.

This sounds like my roommates basically need to sign a permission slip for me to be allowed to leave. Can the landlord really require this?

This tenant has a signed ESA Addendum that includes the dog must always be on a leash when on the property and not inside the apartment.

I've seen this tenant' dog off the leash at least once. It's been reported to me by other tenant's a few times, too. Besides this, the tenant isn't a great tenant, but also not a bad tenant. This last time it was reported, I called him spoke to him -- his excuse... "I was only going to the mailbox." Regardless, it doesn't matter.

My question.... regarding the same breach of contract, how many times do you remind them until you take action? It's been like 5x, and I feel like 2x is even plenty.

So what's next? A letter addressed to him saying that we've had to remind him several times and if it happens again we will give him a notice to vacate because he can't follow rules? I guess that would have to be a 60-day?

Hey so, asking for a friend, strictly hypothetically, how will this shake out if it goes to court?

So here’s a scenario - a kind of annoying and demanding tenant is always on time with their rent, it’s always paid in full like clockwork, except for one event a year plus ago when they had some maintenance issues. They sent a letter to the property management company as well as to the landlord, it was clearly drafted with the assistance of the landlord. Stating that their home was uninhabitable due to broken A/C and broken washing machine, they demanded a few weeks worth of of rent credit and the letter stated that if the property manager and landlord didn’t reply in a week, the tenant would proceed with their plan not to pay that portion of rent.

The property manager and landlord completely ignored the letter. The tenant sent a partial rent payment. The property manager entered the partial payment in the computer, but ignored the letter, and the tenant had a balance due on their ledger.

The property manager never notified the tenant of the balance due. The tenant may have assumed that they got their way, while the property manager just ignored the entire thing. The tenant continued to pay their rent and other charges billed by the landlord, but not this disputed rent amount. We don’t see any evidence so far that the property management company ever demanded payment or otherwise notified the tenant of the balance due.

A year later, after renewing their lease, the tenant assigns their lease and security deposit to a new tenant. The balance remains on the ledger and nobody mentions it to anyone. The property manager ought to have checked the ledger during this assignment, but this didn’t happen.

A couple months after the new tenant moves in, they ask the property manager an unrelated question, the property manager pulls up the ledger, and the new tenant is shown to have a balance due.

The property management company’s position is, the new tenant is responsible for the balance due, who cares about the story, just pay it and shut up.

The new tenant’s position is, that’s not my bill so don’t ask me to pay it.

Does the management company have any right to demand payment from the new tenant?

Hello all. Landlord here, soliciting help.

Earlier this year, I won an eviction case against former tenants when they failed to appear in court. Then recently, I filed a different case against them for unpaid rent and other costs associated with clearing out their apartment.

The tenants responded to the court today, and filed a counter-suit against me. They also requested a jury trial, which I initially did not. I have a few questions about this process that I was unable to answer after searching online.

I personally don't think a jury trial is warranted, but is that likely to happen simply because they want one? Do both parties have to agree? Will there be an offer for mediation before trial?

Also, I'm representing myself in this matter as the owner/landlord. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe they have a leg to stand on in court, so I'm more annoyed than concerned about this turn of events. The evidence seems pretty cut and dry. I mainly want to know what to expect, in case I'm forced to go against a lawyer.

The tenants were seeking legal assistance for this case, but their responses were filed individually, not by a lawyer. Does the right to counsel only apply to the eviction process? Or can these tenants be appointed a lawyer at any point in this process?

If anyone's been through this process before with a tenant, I would greatly appreciate some insight on how to prepare. TIA.

When I had a bunch of rentals I used to pull these for $12/ea now prices seemed to have shot up. Any help would be appreciated!

Have a great tenant, a single mom in the military, she’s paid on time every month, I asked if she wants to stay and renew, she does.

I am not willing to raise the rent. PITI comes in at $1025, she rents it for $1600. I make a solid profit. Is there anything I need to consider by not raising rents?

Tenants moving out mid-lease

They moved in 6 months ago and in October told me they had another home they wanted to move into. I offered to let them out of the lease early if I could find a qualified renter (hasn’t happened).

Turns out that they had actually signed another lease. They have canceled the utilities effective 11/3 and are planning to move out this weekend.

Her reasoning is that the house (3bd) and yard are too much for them to handle and keep in a good state of care (it’s true the yard looks bad). She mentioned that their child tries to open the windows by the bed and she’s worried they might break (they are old windows). She also said that her income will be decreasing this winter and she’s worried she won’t be able to afford it (new place is 1650 vs the 1850 she’s paying now).

In July she’d mentioned the bathroom faucet can be finicky and drip if not in the right spot (drips keep the lines open in winter here) and the kitchen faucet scaring the child when it’s open full. When moving in we’d told her in the future the garage would be available but it hasn’t become available yet. It was not advertised as a part of the renter. (Detached garage)

Other than that she didn’t mention any issues before signing another lease. She’s been a good tenant until she decided to break her lease. Other than not keeping the lawn nicely.

Any advice? I have a call with my lawyer next week. But what do y’all think? Anyone been in this position before? Winter is the wrong time to list a rental around here. When I listed it in May I had many applicants. Should have screened her more throughly. She didn’t have good credit but assured me she was looking for a nice place to live for many years so I even lowered rent to help her out. Was originally listed at 2k but I genuinely want my renters to be successful. We liked her so I offered to rent it for 1850 and she said that would be well within her budget. Now I’m stuck with a vacant home in a cold weather climate in November. Is eviction in this case worth it you think?

I have a tenant who has not paid rent for a year. She showed me her bank account before I signed the lease agreement with her and she showed me that she has 4x more than the annual rent in her account. She stopped working 2 months after getting the apartment and has not paid since. She claims she's trying to get rental assistance and had me give her letters for programs to help pay her rent but when these programs were contacted by me, they claim she never followed through with the documents and was rejected because of this.

She then shows me a screenshot claiming that the money went through for one of the programs but she claims "for some reason the money was sent to her mother's LLC". So basically it looks like she got the money from one of the programs and sent it to her mother so they can pocket the money, essentially committing fraud. I spoke to my attorney about this, but he claims that priority should be trying to evict her because if we bring too many claims against her, it will look like it is a personal issue and the tenant can claim that I am personally harassing her. This tenant has started bringing random people to live with her in the apartment at this point and is planning to stay as long as possible, plus she just bought a new big screen TV for the apartment.

We finally had a court date and of course the judge decides to give her more time with a set date in a month or so to come up with the money or leave. I doubt she will come up with the money in the given time but although I do not have any hard evidence, is there someone I can have look into possible fraud in a situation like this?

I moved into a duplex June 1st of this year. The previous owners of the property were in the process of selling the duplex so they told me as long as I paid the security deposit and the rent each month that I can wait to sign a lease once the new owners manage the property. The transaction went through in early October, and the new owners sent me a year-lease to sign. I don't really like living here and already found a new place that I want to move into. I have two questions:

1. Since I never signed a month-to-month or year lease, do I still have to give them 30-day notice?
2. Since there is no lease or anything in writing, can they just steal my security deposit?

I recently evicted someone in Baltimore county Maryland. I am working on list of damages and months of rent they owe me. I wanted to make sure I do it right. This is my first. I wanted to see if anyone share an example of structure how they send out the statement. I was told to send pictures as well. Not sure if that is something I really need to do since on the county portal it just says to send the damages and cost of repair. I really need to do this right so I can send it for collection afterward.

I have decided not to renew my tenant's lease due to behavioral issues, and she said she wouldn't leave unless she's been served with an eviction. Naturally, I'm very angry that she won't just leave. She's been very erratic and very rude this whole process, and I can't understand why she would rather have an eviction on her record than leave at the end of her lease.

Due to this situation, I have hired a lawyer who provided me with an Expiration of Lease -Tenant at Sufferance, as her lease expired at 12:00 this afternoon. Due to our laws in our state, we aren't required to provide her with a Notice to Quit, and she has until end of today to move out.

She seems under the impression she doesn't have to leave until an eviction is filed in court, and she has 14 days to move out. She said because her mom told her that (the woman is 25 🙄), her mom knows the law better than the lawyer.

Does anyone else have experience with a tenant that refuses to leave and has any advice?

I have 5 tenants currently and am wondering if there is an auto pay app or website that would make the process easier. Maybe they could submit maintenance requests through there too?

Does something like this exist/ does anyone use one and like it?

Title says it all. I’m currently getting dragged through the courts because of my tenants non-payment. My profit margins are already thin, but giving up some of it to get some kind of insurance rent payments won’t stop seems better than getting no rent payments for months.

Anyone have experience with this and can share?

Thank you!

I have a local service business and I have an office in a prominent location that I don't use. I primarily have it for it's address. My landlord knows I'm never there and wants to sublet it to another tenant to let them store their stuff for 6 months.

He's offered me $100 off my rent which I think is low considering I'm giving up my access to the unit completely. Seeing as I won't have access to the unit, and only be keeping it essentially for address purposes, I'm thinking I should only pay the equivalent of what it would cost to have a virtual address box (around $150/m).

Is this a reasonable ask? Am I thinking about this the right way?

Landlord is threatening to give us notice if we don't pay the remaining of last months rent by the 2nd. And before the landlords come for us, please read.

We moved into this 5bed house that's almost £4k a month and we have ALWAYS PAID on time. Never missed or delayed rent. We also have our domestic cleaning business that helps pay bills.

We recently renewed our lease for the house this year but since last month we lost a big cleaning contract and two old clients, so business has been slow so for the first time we're delaying in the rent but every week my mom has been paying almost a thousand to clear up last months rent.

When we moved in we addressed issues for the landlord to fix like the cooking fan thing had holes, the stairs bannister was shaking, the house WAS NOT CLEANED. So we had to clean it ourselves. There's other issues too. Like the garden and the landlord said someone would fix the garden-- one year later never done. So some things we've had to pay with our money to fix.

Now he said he wants to meet to view the property that our delayed rent of last month is causing him financial difficulties. He does have other properties. But I would think since we've been loyal with rent these past year when we moved in, he would be understanding that things may be slow hence why for the first time since we moved in it's a struggle. He isn't a very understanding landlord as the first few months when we moved in he would constantly send my mom reminders for rent and call early in the morning. She had to tell him to stop that. It was getting stressful.

When we moved in at first for the first month we struggled as we used all our for deposit which was £5 and rent which is £3529 I think or more. What should we do?

My mom has already decided that after this contract ends she won't renew lease because he's not understanding and he's stressful and doesn't get much done when we ask.

So I've got a tricky situation. A prospective tenant reached out to schedule a tour. I conducted a brief pre-screening to ensure that they seem to meet my minimum requirements. During the pre-screening, they revealed that they had been arrested for assaulting their girlfriend and breaking into her home. However, they have not been indicted and claim the accusations are untrue. They also have multiple DUIs, which suggests he might have a substance abuse problem.

I don't think I can legally decline their request for a tour for a crime that they have not been indicted for, but my leasing assistant is a 20-year-old college girl who would be showing the unit to him alone. I don't have anyone else who can show the unit and I'm out of state. I don't want to put her in a situation where she could be with a potentially dangerous person.

[NYC LANDLORD] im seeking advice for my family home. i have a tenant that has been living here for 20 years and in those years we’ve had many of problems. Illegal renting of a spare room on rotation, middle of the night police calls made by me, disturbance, renovation without permission, domestic violence and so on…. they are also hoarders with multiple cats and dogs in the apartment. Now this is a month to month lease in cash for the entirety of the renting to add. I’ve started an eviction 90 day notice after multiple verbal notices of them needing to vacate for much need renovations and for immediate family that needs housing. We received a letter in the mail after 30 days into the 90 notice from the HDP about violations on the apartment. I looked into it and these complaints were filed that align in a timeline that could be considered retaliation. The tenants do not seem to be moving out anytime soon and the clock is ticking for the 90 days. We are prepared to Cash for keys but just can’t do it since we’ve already stopped collecting rent back in September. Tenant is demanding back deposit and money back for the renovations they did themselves without permission. how do we proceed?

Has anyone rented a home with solar on it? Curious how the lease can be configured since the solar will subsidize the electric bill by $100+ each month.

I'm not sure if this is the right sub reddit for this question, if not my apologies.

After two years of operation my commercial landlord wants to have people come in and install a panel for a water meter to measure usage in my unit. Doing so would involve, during business hours, cutting a part of my ceiling open, using ladders, drilling, patching ,etc. Its a disruption to my store and completely unnecessary as water is included in my lease.

Can they just come in and do that even though its completely unnecessary?

Here is what my lease says, which I basically understand as them being allowed to do whatever alterations they want. I'm hoping someone can help me understand better if I have any rights here to atleast make them do it outside business hours.

Lease wording:

11.2 Landlord's Right of Entry. Landlord, its agents, contractors, servants and employees may enter the Premises, without diminution or abatement of rent or liability to Tenant, following reasonable prior notice to Tenant (no less than 24 hours in advance, unless in the event of an emergency) and Landlord's good faith efforts to coordinate such entry with Tenant's on-site management so as to minimize interference with Tenant's business operations (except in a case of emergency): (a) to examine the Premises; (b) to reasonably perform any obligation or exercise any right or remedy of Landlord under this Lease; (c) to perform work necessary to comply with Laws of any public authority or of any insurance underwriter; (d) to make repairs, alterations, improvements or additions to the Premises or to other portions of the Shopping Center as Landlord deems necessary or desirable; (e) to perform work that Landlord deems necessary to prevent waste or deterioration in connection with the Premises, if Tenant shall fail to commence such work within five days after written notice from Landlord of the need for such work (or if more than five days shall be required because of the nature of the work, if Tenant shall fail to proceed diligently to commence to perform such work after written notice); or (f) for any other lawful purposes. If Landlord makes any repairs which Tenant is obligated to make pursuant to the terms of this Lease, Tenant shall pay the cost of such repairs, plus Interest, to Landlord, as Additional Rent, promptly upon receipt of a bill from Landlord for same. Landlord and its designees shall also have the right to enter upon the Premises at any time without notice, diminution or abatement of rent or liability to Tenant to serve or post any notice required or permitted under the provisions of this Lease or by Law.

I moved into a house in April of this year. We discovered that same month that the oven was broken. The stovetop is powered by gas and 3/5 burners work, but the electric powered oven does not. It’s now been a 6 month battle of trying to get the landlord to fix it - either the parts aren’t available, it’s the “repairman’s fault”, or some other excuse. This week, we found mice living in it. Our lease says nothing about appliances, although it is my understanding CA state only requires landlords to fix appliances that are necessary to quality of life (ie fridge, water heater, etc). However with the mice & droppings found in the kitchen, it’s starting to become a health hazard. Do I threaten to call code enforcement? Draw up a repair and deduct? Withhold rent? Any advice would be much appreciated!

I want to start by saying I don’t think this is the upstairs neighbors’ fault. The noises are not normal footstep noises and if they were, I’d have no interest in bringing it to my landlord. But when my neighbor walks over certain spots of my apartment it makes an extremely loud CRACK sound or series of crack sounds, like wood cracking and creaking. It is extremely loud and wakes me up constantly (unfortunately the cracking spots are above my bedroom and much of my hallway.) If a tenant came to you with this issue, would you look into it?

Tenant has requested 10 different repairs on minor things in the first month of rent. Many of them are cosmetic, and they did view the house before moving in. They are acting like the house is filthy with so many work orders regarding cleaning but this house is fairly new, professionally cleaned and in good shape. How do I handle this situation?

I am using the TREC version of notice to vacate and am sending out the notice on behalf of someone

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Since I am sending for someone, the top part "landlord" and "date" section will be blank and the bottom part of By, Printed Name and Firm Name will be filled. But would it be okay if I send it out without a date?

I’ve basically dug myself in this hole by constantly asking the tenant when he prefers certain things to be done. Mostly it was small repairs, he works Uber and is always working and comes home late sometimes midnight. I never cared too much because I figured I’m home anyways (I live upstairs). But now it’s become frustrating because he always wants to be home when repairs need to be done, and constantly makes me work around his schedule. He now broke the tub and it is leaking water downstairs into basement. Do I even bother to ask or do I just tell him when it will need to get done? I don’t need him to be home. He makes me feel bad by saying he will need to take off from work to be there (despite me constantly repeating to him that I do not need him there).

Timing of Leases

I am one year into owning a rental property. When I bought the property, the previous owner already had renters on a lease through July 2024.

They did not renew their lease with me and I now have new renters on lease from Aug '24 - July '25.

Most of the renters verbally committed to the lease around January '24 and all signed by February.

Those of you who have rentals in this area (Athens, GA), when do you start looking for renters for the following year or have your current renters sign a new lease?

Hi guys,

I have a residential rental monthly for a room in Utah.

I came to this room a few months ago, walked in and signed up for my contract on the 7th.

However, I have already given my landlord 30 days' notice that I am leaving on the 28th.

I have about 10 days left, but he says he will take the full month I already paid for.

Is this correct or should he reimburse me for those 10 days difference?

Hi all,

I’m in California, navigating a tricky situation under the just cause eviction law. My long-term tenant renewed for 2024, but soon after, he moved out, subleased to others, and pretended to still live there. I have proof he’s no longer there, and the subtenants moved in at the start of the lease.

In addition to unauthorized subleasing, I’ve discovered:
• A dog in the unit despite a no-pet policy,
• Smoke alarms that were removed,
• Neglect leading to broken drain pipes and a broken vent fan.

There’s also a persistent rat infestation that may require significant renovations to resolve. I’ve been accepting rent during this time, which complicates my ability to address the unauthorized sublease and dog presence. I’m considering a 60-day just cause notice for necessary renovations to tackle these habitability issues, but I’m conflicted about not addressing the lease violations directly. Also, if I move forward with the renovation notice, should I stop collecting rent?

Anyone dealt with overlapping habitability issues and lease breaches under CA’s just cause eviction law? Would really appreciate any advice!