Tenant wants to break my contract

[Jason Barnett]

I have a problem with a tenant. She has been in my building for only 1 month and now she is having some "buyer's remorse" and wants to break her contract. The reason she gave me is that she says she is waking up at night time and she thinks that I have mold in my apartment building.

Now... I am going to get an expert to come inspect the building and tell me if there is any mold. However, in the meantime I need to figure out what I am going to do with my tenant. She is a section 8 / HUD tenant and she and I signed her contract back in September. I think that if I evict her for breach of contract then she will lose her section 8 eligibility, BUT I was hoping you all could verify this. Or maybe someone else can come up with another solution to this problem?

Deep down I really thought this would be a good tenant; she is very clean, she is older and seems to take care of her property. Ideally I would like to convince her to stay with me and continue living in the building, but now I'm not sure what to do.