All Forum Posts by: Chinmay J.

Hi Michelle,
No, the offer has not been submitted yet. I agree, I think that the agent is not moving fast enough. Am I under any legal duty to use this agent? We have not signed anything, just viewed the house and tried to make an offer. I'm thinking of giving a deadline to submit, good idea or bad? I understand it's the holidays and am willing to wait, but I think the interim between Christmas and New Years is doable and not too much to ask.

I closed because I thought it should not be a big problem, they are on month to month lease, so we will give 1 month notice.

We were renting for the last 13 years, never had any issue with any landlord, never miss or delayed any  payment, I still have good relation with all landlords.

There is a signed lease of month to month from previous owner, that I got as part of closing.

I could slap them with 1 month notice without any talk to them on day one only ,I knew that verbal talk is nothing in terms of legality,I just talked to them frequently because I wanted to be nice landlord, but for some people "Nice" mean "weak".

Hey Guys, 

This is more of a shower thought and thankfully hasn't happened to me yet , but I was wondering what should do as a landlord when your tenant is responsible for the utilities and decides to stop paying the heating bill in the winter (electric, gas etc). In addition are there anyways to be notified of this delinquency when the bills would be in the tenants name? 

First of all, I was in process of buying this home for the last 3-4 months, in the beginning only I have told to previous landlord that we want home empty or rent will be this much,and he had conveyed this  message to tenants, we had many times talk on this, so it's not a surprise for them, they knew it and had enough time.

2nd when I talked to tenant he tried to threaten me, he was not nice with me in such scenario I got some fear if he doesn't leave then?

 I asked him to send me email on whatever we agreed he said he has no email id, then I said ok send me SMS,he didn't do this, whenever I sent them SMS they didn't reply.

Even though I am giving them more than 2 months notice.

One more thing, next home is his father's home, he has tenant also, it's bigger than my home.

so you want them to move out in 30 days because you want fair market rent??  I personally don't agree with that. If they pay on time and are not causing any problems, why kick them out in the middle of the winter. Work with them.  For you it is money but for them it is their home.  It is not their fault that they are paying $1250 rent.  Why didn't you have the prior owner tell them they had to move since the house was being sold?  Did he/she tell you how much they were paying in rent?

@Raj G. - I am still waiting on the threat part. How does he telling you that "he knows the law" a threat.  Did you try telling him that you know people from the 5 families? Try that. See what he says. 

OK on a serious note. Why do you need eviction if its month to month? And if he knows that he needs to be out by end of two months, why not let him stay another month and a week like you agreed originally.  What does the lease say about termination of tenancy (I almost wrote pregnancy..lol)? OK. First of all is there even a lease to begin with, or everything has been agreed to orally until this point?