Tenant lease expired January 18, 2024 and tenant is avoiding signing new lease

[Marie Larcom]

I have an rental property in near Memphis TN. The tenants lease expired January 18th, 2024.

I sent him a text message on January 30th, 2024 and ask him if he wants to sign another year lease, or sign a addendum lease and go month to month. 

The tenant will not answer my text message.

I also explained to him in the same text that we have to come to our property and complete an inspection before we can move forward for him to sign a new lease. 

what should I do?

How much notice are we required by law to give him notice for us to inspection our property?

He still is living in our home.

Thank you,

[Corby Goade]

Quote from @Marie Larcom:

I have an rental property in near Memphis TN. The tenants lease expired January 18th, 2024.

I sent him a text message on January 30th, 2024 and ask him if he wants to sign another year lease, or sign a addendum lease and go month to month. 

The tenant will not answer my text message.

I also explained to him in the same text that we have to come to our property and complete an inspection before we can move forward for him to sign a new lease. 

what should I do?

How much notice are we required by law to give him notice for us to inspection our property?

He still is living in our home.

Thank you,

 Bye bye, tenant. Send them a certified letter with notice to non-renew the lease and vacate  based on local laws and your lease. Ostensibly, your lease has a month to month clause in it. If not, most states require that the terms of the lease remain and M2M becomes the default in situations like this. 

I'd like to go one step further and suggest you start inverviewing professional property managers. Situations like this are PM101- if you don't know what you are doing and don't act professionally and with authority, tenants will smell that from a mile away and the chances of being taken advantage of are VERY high. That will cost you significantly more than any PM fees you'll cough up. 

Best of luck!