Eviciton Options when courts are closed

[Dan Bosak]

Is anyone having any success with removing tenants during COVID in an area where eviction courts are still closed?  

I have a few tenants who were in the eviction process prior to the COVID shut-down and courts closed so we could not remove.  Now months later, they are still not paying and courts are still not open for us to resume the process.  We've reached out with: attempt to create a partial payment plan, provided info on every relevant grant or assistance program available to them, provided info on local employers who were hiring, and offered cash for keys if they moved out. None of these have helped with a few problem tenants and we seem to be stuck carrying them until courts reopen which will likely be a few months away at best.  

The only option we've found is to:
- Send to collections now for current outstanding balance
- File for eviction if/when we can finally do that again
- Send to Collections for final balance after eviction

I don't foresee this doing much of anything in the short-term other than getting the inevitable collection process moving now.  

Has anyone had any success with other options?