question on lease clause

[Anl Gupta]

Hello Folks

Thanks so much for such a great forum. I had a question and wanted to seek your opinion

1) I put in a clause in lease that says I will put in new AC (window/internal) by a certain date. A weekend before that I contacted tenant and said my handyman wants to come (24 hr note) and that he wants to look at existing AC (central AC) as a last measure of feasibility check before I get new one. Tenant never let me in and said child is sick and may get affected if someone looks at AC and she has to visit dr etc. 3 days passed by and I touched base again and asked what happened. Tenant mentioned  they are at work.

So as my date was approaching, I asked if I could do on weekend, which is a day or so later, and they started saying it is past date. and when I approached with technician to install, they didn't let me install it, since I was 2 days late. This is when I also offered that in the due date, go ahead and pickup an AC from a new Store. So my question is - don't I have valid grounds for delays, since the tenant delayed me for coming in?

2) Secondly, my clause says AC would be installed or a certain dollar amount will be given for install to tenant. Now they are saying they would just not pay rent and take it off and have it installed. Well, my money was to go towards an install to tenant and they haven't produced a receipt and being that I am landlord, I want to make sure it is installed per requirements of building.

3) On top of this tenant's been cursing me and threatening me to leave property, which I believe should be evict able as being unlawful.

Please advise and I really appreciate your opinion.

Thanks so much

Anl

[Max T.]

Get rid of this tenant!

If you need access to the property, give them proper notice, and then go. You have the keys! It is your property.

Don't allow a handyman to go in place of yourself unsupervised. But you are allowed to go in as long as you give proper notice.