Evict or wait until lease expires?

[Sarah Albert]

I have a tenant that is refusing to pay the last two months of rent. She claims it was paid up front (it wasn’t). We’ve given a 3-day notice to pay or quit and she hasn’t paid, which means we can now start the eviction process. However, her lease expires on July 31 and obviously we won’t be renewing. Is it even worth it to do an eviction at this point? Or do we just cut our losses and keep her deposit?

P.S. For those wondering, the 3-day notice took longer than anticipated as we are out of town and the tenant refused to accept the certified mail we sent. We had to travel to the unit and post the notice instead.