As a courtesy, you can consider writing him a letter informing him that beginning next month you will be enforcing your lease and spell out the section that specifics what his obligations are and I suggest that you start communicating with him via electronic mail from here on in.Prepare to file a notice to pay rent or quit as soon as it applies and proceed with an unlawful detainer.

We explain that if they don’t pay within the specified 5 days, then we will file a subpoena for Unlawful Detainer.

My point regarding precedence was nothing other than that, from personal real world experience, I have NEVER seen a judge enforce any detainer law where the tenant/buyer/borrower was paying on time.

I would say they are on an assumed month to month tenancyif they are more than one month late in my county that counts as constructive notice and you can just go ahead and file a detainer warrant for evictioni'm sure the laws are different in commiefornia

I also told them at application what I expected, and how the eviction process worked: Rent is "due on the first, LATE ON THE SECOND, on the third, or at the latest the 5th, their 3 DAY LETTER, would be "nailed and mailed", on the 4th day I would be at the JPs office to file a WRIT OF FORCIBLE DETAINER, and that once I had taken that step THERE WAS NO GOING BACK.It must have worked, between 1980 (converted my first house in Houston to a rental) and 1998 (sold and seller financed my last rental in Houston, I only got to the filing stage 3 times and only had ONE TENANT SHOW UP IN COURT to contest.

IIRC for every 10,000 forcible detainers FILED, about 2500 deadbeats actually show up in court, about 50 of those mount any kind of "defense" that might earn them a "stay of execution".Of the 2450 that "lost", fewer than 50 are still around when the constables show up (one day before actual moving day-to avoid hassles) to warn them the "the truck is coming tomorrow" and maybe 10 of them are still around when the truck comes.My tenants always KNEW I meant business, so I've only ever been in court 4 times, only ever had ONE tenant show up, she mounted a "dog ate my homework" defense, the judge said, "all cash wins-out you go" and they moved on Friday and Saturday.

The CCRA also publishes an easy reference guide to State of Washington Residential Rental Laws and a listing of Unlawful Detainers for our county that goes back 7 years, so I purchase updates of these as needed.

yes, in our municipality, it costs more to file an unlawful detainer for more people.

If she is still there at the end of the lease term, proceed with an unlawful detainer.

Once a court grants you "unlawful detainer" you are on your own to collect back rent and damages from the tenant.