How to deal with Landlord Paranoia

[Morgan Nilsen]

I have a tenant (45 year old man with a son of 5 years old) that is making me paranoid. I cannot determine if he is lying to me regarding his personal situation or if he is a really unlucky guy.

He is a new tenant this month, and paid his first months rent on time, and he has a 3 month deposit. But everytime we schedule to meet he shows up very late.

The biggest contributor to my worry is that he stressed the fact that he needed to move in as soon as possible several times, but after I handed him the keys he was still not moving in after two weeks.

As my apartment is in a very popular school district and he has a son as stated above, I was worried that he just rented my place to get an adress that give him the rights to send the kid there. Once the kid would be accepted into school, he could move and still have the kid belong to the school.

So suspecting foul play, I started contacting other landlords in my area that had posted their flats after I signed the contract with him, asking them if they were being approached by him. The following day, they all replied that he had not done so...

On the 16th day after takeover he spent one night there and has since been away.

I will let him be for now, and try not to think about this. I will also monitor him paying rent very closely.

I am very interested in hearing suggestions from the community as to how I should handle this situation moving forward.