Governor's New Order aka no evictions till July 10th

[Yuriy Skripnichenko]

Hi all, 

Sorry for the bad news. Just yesterday I thought that evictions filing of non-covered properties by the Cares Act should be resumed when the courts reopen June 1st. 

I guess I was wrong... See the governor's order  link below. No evictions until July 10th without any differentiation of covered or non-covered property (see the last page of the order).  

https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200507-TWW-dispossession-of-property-order.pdf

Cheers, 

Yuriy

[Steve Babiak]

The loophole to the order ... under the landlord tenant act, the tenant may waive the notice to quit, provided that the lease contains the proper language that waived such notice.

But even if you have that language, I doubt that any court will evict because of the intent of the governor’s executive order.

On the DIG private forum, attorneys have advised landlords with problem tenants to negotiate with the tenant to leave, with some kind of monetary consideration (AKA cash for keys), but to get an agreement in writing that is actually enforceable. I am just keeping up my hopes that my tenants, all having good track records before becoming my tenants, will continue to be good tenants because otherwise they jeopardize that good track record.