All Forum Posts by: Curtis Maag

Thank you @Thomas S.

Thank you everyone for your insight.  Starting Nov 24th, I gave tenant 6 communications via text, VM, and email about how/where/when to pay rent, but they didn't bother responded until I posted 3 day notice yesterday.  

I know that logically, I should just let the lease end, and find a tenant that I get to pick myself...but, I also know tenant and her 3 children were previously at a homeless shelter, and likely have no where to go.  It just feels wrong booting a single mother and 3 kids to the streets on Christmas. I'm not only about the money..I want to continue to sleep at night haha. My thoughts are this is the first and only warning.  A day late from now on, and I'll proceed with eviction.

@Nathan Gesner seems to confirm my thinking as I wrote this post, and he framed it far simpler.  If both parties agree, the current lease can end and sign the new one.  Are we all in agreement with that??

ps, New lease will do several things: protect me better...I will put in clauses that I feel are missing (good ideas from BP), and it will agree fully with my insurance policy, which the current lease leaves me slightly exposed.  

Just closed on my first rental unit Nov 9.  The inherited tenant's lease is good through September 2019.  Lease says I can't break it on my own...and it doesn't say anything about whether a mutual agreement can break the lease.  They're late on payment and thus in default.  I now have leverage to get her to agree in writing to break current lease (or get evicted), and then sign on to my own.  Is this legal?  I welcome your thoughts.  

ps, I'm in Ohio