Tenant Relationships During Covid

[Warren Shorter]

*First Post*

I invest in Baltimore City currently and have a tenant who pays $700 out of the $1000 lease agreement. Understanding the situation with COVID that was fine for me for the moment. But what route would you all go about in handling this issue. A little background, when she initially signed the lease there was another gentlemen who signed with her. At the end of the initial 6 months she resigned by solo. Assuming they were no longer together. My mistake there! She technically no longer qualified on her own but I figured since she was on-time with her payments we could try for another 6 months. Payments started coming late and not in full. There are two months remaining in her lease and I am not looking to renew. However, she is of retirement age and on a  fixed income. With courts being closed, even when her lease is up, if she decides not to leave, what options do I have at that point? Additional funds were just spent on cleaning and hvac repair which are my costs obviously. However, with her not making her full payments, my personal money had to be used for the repairs. Again, thats okay as its my property so I don't want it being run down. Will have to be taken care of eventually anyway...