First eviction- Pennsylvania

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So this tenant is now on a month to month lease- she is consistently late with rent- every other month in fact. (As of today 5 days late.) She is smoking in the house which is against her lease, she has damaged two doors. She is disruptive at night- my other tenant has called the police on her several times for loud and disruptive behavior in the middle of the night.... So she needs to GO. I don't want to serve her with a notice to evict due to failure to pay rent- I'm afraid she will simply cough up the money and be in compliance so I will have no grounds to evict her. Instead I want to simply end the month to month lease- Pennsylvania law says I must give 15 days notice to end the month to month lease but I must give her 30 days notice to vacate. 

Could use any bit of guidance/advice you have.  Thank you. 

[Shain Ismailovski]

Hi Beth -- your next step here should be to consult an attorney on the proper protocol for getting someone out of the home. If they have been as disruptive as you make them out to be it seems less likely that they will be compliant with you choosing to to  not renew their lease. I am unsure about PA, but some states have laws that protect the tenants from this kind of eviction if they are able to show that they have a hardship or will be unlikely to find a new place in time. You could be stuck with her for longer then. The eviction process is best left to professionals.