Breaking lease and subletting
What would you do in this situation? I have a tenant who quietly moved out and moved across country and got a bad credit tenant to sublet in direct violation of his lease agreement. Now I have a guy living in the house for 7 months who I never would have allowed move in, but is current on rent, and a former tenant who pretended to be living there the entire time now demanding his security back. Here is what I think my options are:
1) invoke the hold over tenant clause and try to charge the original tenant double rent because he is technically holding over since his guests are still occupying the home.
2) keep the security for breach of agreement and continuing allowing the other guy to rent as long as he is on time with payments
3) evict the other guy now, who doesn't even have a lease with me, keep the old security deposit, and get a new tenant.
Anything I'm missing? What would you do ?