Tenants that are no longer a couple...what to do?

[Luis Becerra]

Hello guys, first off I wanna say I've been on this website for a while and really haven't had a need to ask questions being I could usually find an answer by searching the forum. (Not saying I'm an experienced investor or anything because I'm not, I've only been in the game a couple of years and I'm a bigger pockets member in order to learn)

Well the time has come for my first bump in the road in land lording. I have tenants in a duplex that I rented to this past September and they were recently engaged. Well sure enough I just got a phone call today by one of them saying they want to be removed off of the lease.

Do any of you have any suggestions on how I should handle this, or approach it conversation wise with both tenants?

I did tell the tenant that called me that I could not make a decision right on the phone and that I would have to get back with them.

Thanks,
-Luis

[Donald Hendricks]

They both signed, they are both on it until it naturally terminates. Stay out of it, when they get back together next week, you will be the bad guy. If you let one out and the other fails to perform, you now have one less person to get your $ out of.

Just my opinion.