Difficult Tenant-only paying partial rent!

[Azeem Haq]

Hello BiggerPockets community!! New member here, looking forward to interacting in these fHaving an issue with a tenant and wanted to see if anyone else has had a similar issue or can offer advice! So we bought a duplex last year and fully renovated it (New roof, new furnace, water heaters, windows, new vinyl plank flooring, cabinets, the works... all done by licensed contractor) the tenant is claiming is heat and electric bill are too high due to in-adequate insulation. The heat/electric are the tenants responsibilty per the lease. The rent per the lease is $1100, he said he will only pay $800-$900/month. I get that this is better than no rent payment at all, but either way not right. The property is in CT where we still have an eviction moratorium until 04/20/2021. As of now I'm just collecting what he is paying, anyone have any experience with a similar situation?

Thank you!

[Filipe Pereira]

Originally posted by @David Avery:

Sometimes it hard to pay your water when the tenant doesn't pay you the full rent.

Just have the water company turn off the water.

It works and if the tenant turns you in,  ( board of health ).  Then the BOH gives the 

tenant a 48 hour notice that is pretty strict !

Then you have your property back in less than 3 days!

This is horrible advice. 

The BOH can also relocate the tenants to a hotel and you get the bill. And if you don't pay? Bam, lien on your property. The government never loses. Remember that.