But he had always been (or at least coming across as) genuine, hard-working, trustworthy, respectful, and had always been communicative. Has taken great care of the place as well. He had verbally agreed to get caught up on rent last week - but I had not heard from him in over a week and he stopped responding to my messages - so half of me got worried that something bad had happened to him (because this behavior was unusual), and half of me was pissed (if he was avoiding me on purpose).

Without going into too much detail (for now; I can add details later), the current situation is supposedly (based on what his fiancé told me) that he got into a car accident a week and has been in a hospital in a coma. She sent me a screenshot of a photo of him in a coma on a hospital bed from Facebook. I noticed my text messages and phone calls to his cell were rejected on Friday saying incoming messages/calls are disabled - I also tried from a different number and got the same results; fiancé said his cell phone has been missing since the car accident.

I called the hospital that the fiancé told me he is at to confirm, but they said if someone is in a coma, their name would not be in the "system" for people to ask and check to see (whether by phone or in person) if they are at the hospital, and only family members would be able to visit. In other words, I have no way of confirming if this is true. I did ask the fiancé for information from the police report whenever she gets a hold of it.

As of July 25, when the fiancé said she visited him at the hospital, she told me "The doctor said in the next 30 to 90 days we will see the most progress from him".

What can I do? If this is true - What are my rights as a landlord (separate from what I can do to be kind and helpful)? Can you even evict a person in a coma? I feel stuck because this is a very unique situation - but I also don't want to be "that" landlord.

(Please don't lecture me either on "you're being played" or "you are heartless"; I know "it's a business" and I'm often at fault for trusting people and being too nice which has almost screwed me over a few times; I've also offered to help the fiancé and her kids in any way I can, while also making sure to try to take steps that there's truth to the information I have)

Atlanta, Georgia

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