Newbie with difficult inherited tenant's spouse; unpaid rent

[Abass Sheikh]

Hello everyone, 

Firstly, I have been lurking for a while now and have gotten incredibly useful stuff from here and I cant thank you enough for that.

I am a newbie investor who just bought a rental property this summer with an existing tenant and fast forward a few months later, the tenant was late the first month albeit paying late fees and hasn't paid the last two months. They claim that they haven't been late the past few years with the previous owner (and the seller had praised the tenant at the closing) but that they ran into some issues lately that is withholding/delaying their payments (that they have big check payments that is taking long due to "holds" blah blah). The probability that this just happened at the time of ownership change is mind boggling! They have given me various dates earlier this month when it was to clear but no luck yet, just giving a new date next week!

Of course, I was tired of it already and I have already sent the relevant notices that are needed before starting a potential eviction petition. They are upset that I am impatient and that there is no way they would have stayed all those years if they were bad tenants blah blah but just ran into an unfortunate circumstance.

To add to this, a spouse that the previous owner never mentioned and is not on the lease seems very entitled wondering why am in such a hurry while they already told me their "problems". Also, he gets upset when I communicate with the tenant on the lease (his spouse). He sends me this long annoying messages, sometimes with excuses for the lack of payments and other times telling me how great tenants they were with the previous owner. He seems highly opinionated on various topics and I have stopped responding to him. This is not how I envisioned starting this journey, but it 
is what it is and would like to hear suggestions from you seasoned folks on the way forward.