Tenants Not Paying Rent!

[Justine Phillipson]

Hello, I would like to get some advice or opinions on my situation.

I own a property in South Bend, Indiana. I live in California, and have a property manager run it.

Because of Covid, the husband lost his job. My tenants only paid half of the June rent. Today, they finally laid the other half of June rent, only after making a huge stink about waiting on unemployment and not being able to feed their kids.

They still haven’t paid anything for July. They said they will pay that on the 15th (I highly doubt they will though).

Indiana state laws have made evictions illegal until September.

What would you guys do? Their lease goes until 3/2021. I’m thinking about waiting until they give me the July rent, and then offering them to move out and break the lease and I’ll waive the penalty for them?