Unresponsive Tenant.....Now what?

[Andres Piedra]

I placed a tenant starting on 1 August and already he's turned out to be a flake. Cool part is, I'm learning a whole lot.

He still hasn't paid September's rent, claiming a medical problem with his father, thus he's bed-side with him and is preoccupied. True or not: pay your rent. He mentioned he will probably need to break the lease (45 days into a 12 month lease) to move back to where his ailing father lives.

I sent him a pay or quit notice already and will start eviction proceedings by Wednesday. Fine and dandy.

My main question is, since he's already told me he plans to break the lease and advised me to market the property for rent again, can I show the property w/out his permission? I ask this question because this tenant has become unresponsive and I have had a lot of interest from potential new tenants to see the property.

Can I show this property?