Eviction advice needed

[Izel Pieters]

I need some advice please. At one of our duplexes we are in the process of Evicting one of the renters due to not paying rent. They are 6 months behind on rent due to COVID-19, excuses are all of the ones you can imagine, not able to work, not having transportation to go to work, not receiving their stimulus check, having car issues and the list goes on. We worked with them, had a payment plan, they would follow the payment plan for about 2 weeks then stop paying again. This went on for the majority of 2020 but because of the Covid Memorandum we could not do anything but work with them. In Mississippi the memorandum expired 31 Dec 2020. We went through the process of Pay or quit. That didn’t work. We gave them 2 more weeks to come up with at least one month of rent and then another payment plan. That didn’t work. So we filled an Eviction. Court is this Thursday 21 Jan 2021 but now they say “they have covid” and can not come to court.

This will be the second time they have had COVID. The lease is up Feb 20th, but we would like to get them out before. With looming talks about more memorandums we are not sure how to proceed.

What do we do?

Thank you in advance.