Perhaps a visit to the water company together for a scheduled appointment with a supervisor is best, but don't know if this is feasible with the coronvirus threat these days.Whatever balance is outstanding after all these efforts I would probably propose to the tenant to split it after pointing out the clause in your lease.

Financially speaking the threat is that capex will start to exceed cash flow a few years into the investment - aka money pit.

in my market in the midwest ,i donot see rents going down.i owe mostly class b properties.in 2008 and 2000 , i actually was able to raise rents,because i had alot of class a tenants where coming to my properties.i see this time a liitle different ,but i think rents in apts and duplexes will stay even.alot of fellow landlords will renew their rents at same price.they will be scared to raise renewals.in the apts and duplexes the landlords who know how to market better will be alright.the landlords who do not market their properties all year will be hurt.we have learned if you market your places even when no vacanies it helps.so when you get one ,you sort of have a waiting list. were i think you will have the problem ,will be in single homes.that is the person that has been most effected by cov-19.most were white collar, not essential jobs in our state of wis.it will hurt when trying to rent that property ,because your pool of tenants will be smaller.in the plus side ,if that is your market you should be able to add units at a good price.because like renters,that same market of homeowners is getting effected.foreclosures will be coming in 6 months.where i see the big problem coming is commercial properties.you could see a 25 vacancy in that area.alot of retail ,will never reopen.who knows how low their prices could go.what i know for sure, will the landlords who thought being a landlord was easy the last couple of years will disappear like in 2008 and 2000. their weakness in running their business will come front and center and they will sell out .i see some starting to bail already,and we have started to have problems.the no evictions has shown in our state already, which landlords have good screening process.because most of tenants not paying our tenants they should have not took in the  first place.we have good tenants that have lost jobs,but they have found a way to pay.between stimulas check,unemployment checks ,savings ,or payments plans ,or temporary gigs.we had problem with only 1 tenant last month,out of 155.that is with a building we just bought,we have not been able to train her in our way of doing business.you can tell by her way of talking she is  belively in her mind she does not have to pay rent.and with no threat of evictions ,nothing we can do.that is where goverment has to stay out of our business.we even got of  her rent covered by local help assocaitions ,but she is to lazy to go to them.that is most of the same kind of tenants ,most landlords every problems with in our local apt assoc.

I did this at no costs to the tenants.The dryer is still not fixed because of:Delivery isn't possible, deliver companies won't enter the propertyMeans they can't hookup or remove the dryer that is currently thereDryers are non-essential (Grosse Pointe is saying as of today they are though)Numerous threats by the City saying any work would trigger the $1000 fine. 

The threat of eviction works for me but I don't know how your court system works or how savvy the tenant is.

One week ago this was barely a threat on most people's radar in the REI community now, everyone has an opinion (including me).

@Tony Huynh - It sounds like the new tenant has something to hide and the current tenant is attempting to use threats to hide this fact.

In a bad year 9% of agents are victimes of violence or threats of violence.

For example were their threats?

The threats can be ignored.