All Forum Posts by: Harrison Fortier

I have a couple on a 1 year lease. They are about 1/2 way through. They broke up and one of them moved out and contacted me about getting out of the lease. Let's call her Mary. The other tenant told me they intend to stay and will keep paying the rent. Let's call him Sam. Sam has been covering the rent himself, so I'm not worried about rent not being paid. Sam also would like Mary off the lease. It seems to me that it would be best to write up a new lease with only Sam on it. However my concern is that technically this could be viewed as an eviction of Mary? I was thinking of having Mary write me a letter that says she moved out on xyz date, has abandoned any property left at the leased premises (if any), and wants to break the lease ASAP. I tried googling around to see what the correct legal thing to do in situations like this is, but couldn't find anything. Thoughts?

First time landlord here. I have an applicant who has been pretty responsive to my emails and Qs. Going through the screening (pre-showing / pre-application process).

This applicant's spouse is deployed. Not sure when he will be back. The applicant's income alone does not qualify for our 3x rent criteria. She asked if we would count her husband's income toward that. As he is out of country somewhere, he wouldn't be on the lease.

If she applies, I was going to ask for a bank statement on the checking account where is military pay is deposited so I could verify her name was on it and thus she had access to the income.

Is this a terrible idea, or a great idea? Would you use her deployed husband's income toward meeting our screening criteria? Any surprises that I should prepare for?