All Forum Posts by: Cameron Rees

After posting a 5-day pay or vacate notice on the door, the next day the tenants dad called me saying he has a check for me. Late fees included. Im glad I don't have to try to evict and hope the tenant gets better and gets back on track. Thank you all so much for your help.

Plot twist: He messaged me back on Facebook and said "Im at rehab, my dad has my rent money I will call him today."

That was yesterday. I told him he owes a late fee and if I don't see the money by Monday the 9th I will serve an eviction notice.

@Ashleigh Leach I got my lease from another local landlord and it seems legit, but I am not sure if an attorney wrote it up. 

It states that "Violation of any conditions of this agreement shall be sufficient cause of eviction from said premises. Tenant agrees to vacate the premises within 5 days after receiving notice in writing due to nonpayment of rent, damage to property, or any other breach of this agreement."

Thank you so much again for your response.

@Lynnette E. Thank you for the response again.

He did not say which facility unfortunately.

My lease does not specifically say a notice has to be given before leaving for 7 or more days.

I cannot enter because I don't have a spare key to his unit. Big rookie mistake I know but the previous landlord did not have one.

He did not put down an emergency contact name as there is no spot on my lease for it.

Im sure its pretty apparent I don't have my ducks all in a row but am prepared to get it all resolved and get better because of it. 

Thanks again.

@Ashleigh Leach Thank you so much for the detailed advice. He also deleted his phone number as now it says out of service when I call. Is a letter on the door saying he has to be out in 30 days good enough for a notice?

I’m still in good spirits about this because I know it’s just a bump in the road and as you have mentioned, it is just experience I am gaining.

Thank you again.

@Victor N. I am waiting for a lawyer to call me back and hope he has some good news. Thanks

He is on a month to month lease also.

@Victor N. Yes. He hasn’t paid rent for November.

Okay thanks for the info. If only I could get ahold of him.

Hello BP,

I am desperate. I closed on a 4 unit house hack in September and it is my first rental property. I have never been so excited in my life to feel like I have accomplished something that I am hoping with help lead me to financial freedom in the future. My wife took some convincing to move but she is now seeing the benefits and we are living almost free, that is if tenants pay. Two tenants are amazing and genuinely seem like great people that I should never have a problem getting rent from. The third is a different story. He was late the very first month and last called me late, drunk. He said he was smelling a chemical smell from his heater. I went over there and didn't smell anything and gave him a new carbon monoxide and smoke detector to make sure it wasn't anything that would harm them. The tenant, stumbling his words, kept bringing up random issues with the property and kind of throwing them at me with no particular order or reasoning. This is after he just signed a lease with me and said there weren't any problems with the unit when I had asked him. Next he mentioned that he was planning on going to rehab the next day and wondered how rent was going to work since he was going to be gone for a period of time. I told him rent would still be due as normal. Eventually my wife and I went back over to our unit and went to bed. 

The next morning I had texted him asking if he could let me know his plan so I can figure out what I needed to do. No response. Since then I have called and he deleted his phone number and I have also messaged him on Facebook with no response as well with texts. I think he did go to rehab because I have not seen his car at all nor him. I have called the few lawyers that dabble in real estate and they basically said I can't do anything. I asked if him being absent from the unit made a difference and he said yes, but did not seem well educated on the subject and couldn't seem to tell me exactly what to do. One other problem is I never got a spare key to that unit when I bought it and had never made a new one in the month I've been here unfortunately.

Does anyone in Illinois know if I have and rights in order to get someone else in the unit? Am I out of luck? Any help is appreciated and I hope I have given enough Information.

Thanks,

Cameron