Tenant Not Leaving After Lease

[Justin Gomberg]

Hello Everyone!

I purchased a duplex and both units came with tenants. When I initially took over this property over the rent was incredibly low compared to market rent comps.

I gave the one side on a month-to-month lease a 60-day notice of rent increase and also explained we will be renovating it. I found out at that time there was another person living there who was not on the lease. 

I ran background and added that person onto the lease. Due to his income if the original person on the lease leaves this new person would not qualify by himself. Because the new tenant told me he wouldn't financially qualify by himself (only collects a little bit of disability) and the original tenant didn't want the rent to go up, the original tenant sent me an email putting in his 60-day notice to vacate the premises. 

On the addendum when adding the new tenant it states the new tenant who was living there but not on the lease is staying until the set date the original tenant is moving out July 3rd.

The original tenant has already moved out and given me a forwarding address but the new tenant we added on who is supposed to vacate today 07/03/2021 sent me this long email about how he cannot leave because he was in the hospital and doesn't have the resources to pay for movers and cannot qualify for any other apartments due to his income. 

I would love to hear your advice or ways you have dealt with a sticky situation like this! 

Thank you all so much for the continued help!