Illegal immigrant tenants and lease termination

[Luke Dilorenzo]

Hello everyone,

I feel like maybe I’m being a softy, however I wanted some input from the more experienced landlords out there on how they would/have handled this situation.

So recently I closed and owner occupy on a 4-plex. The plex is occupied by 4 Latino families that have all been there 10+ years. I sent the month to month termination letter with one months rent (825$) and 3 months to vacate.

I received a call this morning from the tenants literally in tears and broken English asking

“why us?” And “we will be homeless, no where for us to go, please we pay more for rent to stay”

Needless to say My heart broke.

How would a professional manager go through with this?