Housing Voucher Tenants - Help!

[Michael Hutchinson]

I have a tenant in a property that I own that uses a housing voucher. We inherited this tenant when we moved in, but will be ending the lease in a few weeks.

After doing the paperwork and sharing it with the housing agency, I thought everything was good to go. She reached out and said that her appointment is the day before the lease end date, and that she can’t get a new voucher for 3-6 weeks after, so she can’t move until then. We gave her 53 days notice (only 30 required in Ohio on a month to month lease), and have followed all needed steps.

This is an issue because we have contractors lined up to complete some needed renovations and will ruin a lot of our timeline.

Has anyone experienced this, or is the tenant just trying not to move? The tenant is incredibly difficult to deal with as she smokes in the home, doesn’t pick up after the dogs, doesn’t maintain the property, and rarely pay rent on time.