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Tenants have separated and cannot agree on ANYTHING....Now what?
We have a rental in Mi and rented to a couple who were not married. They are on the lease together and the boyfriend has moved out. The woman left says she cannot afford to stay alone supporting her children....there is only 2 months left on the lease which we are willing to allow them to walk away from just to be done with the situation but it is becoming extremely heated between the two of them. the woman is insisting she stay for the next two months paying her half and that's it's our responsibility to go after him for his half. Our lawyer is out of town for the next 2 weeks....what am I supposed to do with this mess? Also if we do reason with them and are able to get them to terminate the lease how do we redustribute the security deposit? (They are already arguing over who its entitled too) I'm just hoping to come to an agreement that doesn't end with an expensive eviction process or serious property damage...
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If rent is late, evict them. Don't give special treatment because a relationship didn't work out, most don't.
If both signed the lease, make the security deposit out to both of them. No bank will deposit it without both signatures, so it'll up to them to figure it out.
Don't let their problems become your problems.