Avoiding evictions during COVID-19

[Michael Vargas]

Hello all. I have a few 1 year leases ending in a few months. With this no eviction for missed rent of the tenants that are affected directed from COVID.

I was considering doing month to month leases instead of one year.

My rentals are in PA, I can still evict if it’s for non-monetary reasons.

I have no grace period in my lease, so if a tenant doesn’t pay, I can post a 30 notice of lease termination and if they don’t leave on their own then I can start the eviction process for the tenant holding over past there lease ending.

My thoughts are that this way I would lose minimum of 2 months rent ( the month they initially didn’t pay, plus the 30 days notice), but would be able to evict for the lease ending. Rather then having someone pay one month and then never again for a whole year.

Does this make any sense and if not, what are you doing to avoid tenants staying in your homes for months and not paying?