Landlord-ing during Covid

[Tommy Collins]

Hi all, I have a SFH in the DFW area which I have had a long term tenant in for 2 years. The tenant has been excellent and has always paid rent on time even when the eviction moratorium came into effect. The tenant is now moving out at the end of this month and I am hesitant to enter into another long term rental agreement. Now that Biden seems ready to extend the eviction moratorium to the end of September (and possibly even further), I am worried I could get stuck with a tenant that does not pay rent and I have no options to remove them from my property.

How are you handling this? Are you pivoting to short term rentals like Airbnb until this is over? Or taking your chances with a long term lease and hoping you don't get stuck with a problem tenant? Or am I missing a way to evict the tenant for non-payment.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you