when to tell month-to-month renter she's out?
We are about to sign a contract on a house with a rental that is occupied by a month-to-month renter. We are planning to take over part of the rental for my mother-in-law and rent the rest to my sister. We will close in late March and will need the rental unit vacant by May…
We are about to sign a contract on a house with a rental that is occupied by a month-to-month renter. We are planning to take over part of the rental for my mother-in-law and rent the rest to my sister. We will close in late March and will need the rental unit vacant by May 1. When should we tell the current renter that she has to leave? And how – is there any legality in this situation that I should know about as far as it being in writing, or does her lack of lease mean all bets are off?
Thanks.
Oh that is too funny!
That’ll teach him to be a pedant! LOL
Damn, I love it when that happens. Meryckawick gets all excited and goes to make a slam dunk, only to have his arm ripped from its socket. Such a pure and comical reversal of fortune…it’s a pity one doesn’t see this sort of thing more often.
Hah, more to the point, 5:10, he’s assuming that the material is original with Scalzi, which it most certainly is not. I have an old “Weekend” magazine with this exact text from August of 2000. And I think I’d seen it somewhere else long before that.
You guys plainly have too much time on your hands. Don’t you have some peepholes to drill or something?
Meryckawick, you’re assuming that the person who posted that was not John Scalzi. On what do you base that assumption?
To all you landlords who had good experiences “asking” a tenant to leave: spend a day in housing court and see how the most well intentioned landlord tenant situation disolves into a nightmare of living hell over and over and over….That’s human nature for you. Get a lawyer.
Meryckawick,
Good catch. Word for word except for the hostile little victim intro.
It’s nice to know that John Scalzi from the Chicago Tribune reads Brownstoner:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0509150091sep15,1,3209937.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Do you really know what it’s like to be poor Anon 8:58, or just what it’s like to steal someone elses thoughts?
Wrong. A conversation and a letter are meaningless and USELESS as a way to compel a tenant to move on such and such a date that they agreed to.
“Here’s the letter I wrote you three months ago when you said you’d move out.” “Sorry, my apartment fell through. I need another month or six.”
A letter like this is ONLY of use in an EVICTION proceeding, where you’ll end up anyway. Why wait?
“humane” has everything to do with it..
the conversation should be followed up with a letter documenting the conversation..
what I don’t understand is why the OP did not just arrange for the place to be delivered vacant from the start..they knew they would not want a tenant