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Updated almost 4 years ago,
Landlord recourse for tenant breaking faucet?
I’m in WA (in case that makes a difference)... question is... during this era of COVID eviction moratoriums... what recourse do I have w/ a tenant who bounces between being normal and hostile...
It’s a long story of her demanding things, her working on her timeframe but becoming irate if we’re not also working on her timeframe... she seems to constantly have issues. After an afternoon where we had been fixing and replacing items in her unit she came home and claimed we left her front door wide open. We don't believe we did, but she was in a crazy rage about it, and she cursed my husband out and moments later sent a photo of a brand new kitchen faucet that we had installed during the upgrade now broken and said “oh, and this is broken too, fix it”. She obviously broke it in her rage - now we worry she’ll go ahead and wreck the unit and expect us to just keep on fixing stuff in her unit as she destroys it.
Do we have any options to evict her due to cause? We do have a clause in her lease that she has to maintain things in working order (not worded like that, but you get the idea) - is the kitchen faucet enough to start this eviction, can I evict based on destruction during COVID?
TIA for your help, we’re just so stressed out by this lady!