Drug bust in one of my units, can I give them the boot?
I have an inherited tenant that was arrested for two counts of delivery of a controlled substance. The police raided the apartment early in the morning on a Saturday. In addition, my triplexes are right across the street from the high school, so there is a drug free zone charge as well. Three felony charges in all.
The tenant is still in custody, but her girlfriend remained in the apartment.
I want to ask them to leave. They are month to month tenants with no lease. Our lease has a clause in it addressing drugs, however we never signed our lease with these tenants, we just left them as month to month.
Can I give them 30 days notice with cause, (the drug charges). Or should I just give them 30 days notice, and say that we need to remodel the unit. (We will in fact do a total remodel when they leave.)
This is in Texas, by the way.
Thank you!