here’s the problem
the “home owners” actually think they shouldn’t have to pay for thier home
I have a Christian old lady friend who is owed more than 5K in rent, for Heaven’s sake, by some operator who keeps asserting she is expecting a car wreck settlement and will pay her rent then. I keep telling my friend to get rid of her tenant and that I will do it for her, but my friend thinks if she waits it out, she will get her money. To which I snort.
but yeah, the tenant thinks my friend is “rich” and should spot her for the rent, disgusting
Tell your friend to kick them to the curb. The free ride is over. They’ll trash the house (if they haven’t already).
You are describing my grandmother.
She had such a tenant and took payment in wrought iron stuff. I still have some of it.
Your post gives me bad flashbacks.
Tell your friend to start eviction proceedings with an off-the-record apology to the tenant that shifts the responsibility to elsewhere. Say the insurance company or the big bad bank requires her by contract to start the process at a specific stage of tenant arrears. The old goodcop-badcop routine.
There is probably no “car wreck settlement” at all (95% certain), and if there is, the tenant will spend it on anything but the back rent (99.99% certain).