Tenant does not want to move out

[Yangyang Jin]

I bought an investment property in February this year, and after multiple assessment, we decided the property is not safe for the tenants to reside further and sent a notice to inform the tenant that we will not renew the lease when their lease is up by end of July. One of the tenants reached out to me recently asking that we let them to stay because they are not able to find a new place, the reason being they don't have credit history ( they have lived in the country for over 20 years now), and all landlord requires credit history. Do you have suggestions for me? Is there places that they take alternatives when tenants do not have credit history? What else can I do to make sure the tenant move out on time? 

[Jim K.]

You definitely need to get ready to evict @Yangyang Jin.

Twenty years and no credit history? You are not responsible for what is, at this point, your tenant's long-term, willful disregard of the realities of living in America. You are not their mommy or daddy. You are their new landlord, who ponied up the scratch to buy the roof over their head, because they've been in this country twenty years and never realized the risks that come with not owning that roof.

As soon as you point any of this out to them, however, I guarantee they'll be ready with another set of excuses or some general excuse about how this is all about landlord greed (and not their own outsized stupidity over decades).

I am an American Born Abroad and an infant immigrant to this country. My father was an immigrant. My mother was an immigrant's child. My wife is an immigrant. Immigrants just aren't allowed to be that stupid and irresponsible in America. They're just not. I'm sure you know it, you're sure they know it, somewhere in time these people lost the thread and decided to bask in their ignorant bliss and go with the flow for one group of BS reasons or another until the wheels came off whatever no-credit-history-necessary lifebus they've spent the last twenty years on.

The wheels are off and they're in the ditch, and it's not your problem or your responsibility to put their wheels back on or get that lifebus out of the ditch. The best help you can offer them at this point is a long-delayed reunion with some of the unavoidable realities of immigrant life in America, namely, and once again, that immigrants are not allowed to be dead from the neck up in this country. Put your boot in their butt and get rid of them and their twenty years of BS excuses as soon as possible.