Please advise - NEKCAP ( section8 ) tenant

[Kinjal Patel]

I bought a duplex last summer and inherited NEK-CAP (section8) tenant on one side. Their lease ended in last year with previous owner. Tenant never sign the lease with us. This is professional Tenant. Recently NEK-CAP kick them out from program and told tenant that NEK-CAP will pay only till April. What kind of notice we needs to send to tenant to vacant property by 4/30/19? I have a PM on this property and when I told them to send some notice then they told me that we just have to hope for this kind of people to leave the property. Please advise.

[Patti Robertson]

I would give them this shortest notice your state and their former lease allows. You want your deadline to move to be before the SEC deadline if at all possible, because you will end up having to take them to court if they are really professional tenants.  You want to have a legal right to file as soon as you possibly can.  If they owe you any money, you can probably file faster for that than you can a non-financial cure.  Get ito court ASAP, get possession (or whatever your state calls it) so you can file to evict before May 1.