Can You Evict During This Period if There is No Lease?

[Mark S.]

I have several investment properties and have a weird one here.

My tenant, who the lease is with, passed away from natural causes in the summer.

We found out he passed from some caretaker living there (that we had no idea was living there with him).

She wanted to remain there for a few short months, before moving elsewhere.

She wanted a 3 month lease, we gave it to her.

Lease expired in August and then she wanted to continue staying there, month to month, claiming she needed some more time to move to wherever it was she was going to.

She paid last month.

This month no payment came in on October 1, no returned calls to my property manager asking about the late payment and eventually she sends over some CDC letter and doesn't want to pay anything.

I have no doubt she will ride out the CDC order for however long it lasts.

I'm afraid this CDC order will prevent me from evicting her, even though she has no lease. I have no idea what could be going on there or if the property is being demolished.

I've never been in a situation like this, have no idea what my options are given the facts.