Providing tenant alternate accommodation when i need to fix the house

[Wai Chan]

There is some deferred maintenance tenant want me to take care of in the bathroom and kitchen in a 2 bedroom/1 bathroom house. The work should take about 4-5 days. The work is pretty extensive so I want tenant to move out temporarily while the contractor can do the job easier. The tenant has a few other people that I am not aware of living in the unit and also have two dogs. I have been graciously turning a blind eye to the occupant and dogs situation for the past. However, when I told the tenant that I will provide one hotel suite for 4 people (2 queen bed with kitchen and free breakfast), she has started demanding me to provide room and board for everyone including the dogs. She told me I know the dogs live there so I should also take care of it. The hotel is about 4 miles away from where she lives but she demands that the location has to be close to her grandkids' school (I actually have no idea her grandkids live there). I thought I have been providing enough assistance to help with the situation but it seems that she now tries to take advantage of me. I am only asking her to move out for 6 nights but what she is demanding will cost me ~2/3 of the rent. At one point she even said if the hotel doesn't provide kitchen then I need to pay her $500 just for food for 6 nights.

If you were the landlord, what would you do? 

[Nathan Gesner]

Quote from @Wai Chan:

You've made a terrible mistake of allowing the tenant to violate the lease with unauthorized occupants and pets. They now see you as a weak landlord and will walk all over you every chance they get.

Please don't make another mistake by housing them for a renovation and then handing them keys to a renovated rental. In fact, I wouldn't do the renovation at all unless it is 100% necessary. Let them finish their lease, get rid of them, then renovate.