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You need to deal with this day by day and case by case. Getting scared is not going to get the problem solved. Where are you right now with your rents? --50.107.xxx.xxx

Still though, I've been reducing the inventory. Prices are up and interest rates low. For me, all marginal places, those too far away, those which will need major work in the next couple years, those (if I had any) in areas subject to riots, etc are either sold or soon will be sold. --172.222.xx.xxx

On second thought, keep your insurance paid! :-) --50.107.xxx.xxx

That should have read, that your bank, your utilities, and your insurance companies don't owe you anything. In the form of compensation. But you don't know your tenants anything either so shouldn't be left holding the bag. --50.107.xxx.xxx

I'm in Maryland...I have a tenant on a month to month lease. He has not paid rent since January. I have notified him several times, in writing, that I was not renewing his month to month and he would have to leave. He has not left and has 6 extra people living in the house. Since I notified him that he had to move, I hired a lawyer who has filed a "Tenant Holding Over" suit. Not sure how I will collect 7 months rent from this guy, but I just want him and all his friends out....Hopefully we will be given possession of our house on the day of court. I'll let you know if I think of it. --24.89.xx.xxx

arlene MD, you're not going to collect but you will learn here that waiting to boot deadbeats is bad practice. you should swing by and find out the names of the folks living in your home. just open the mailbox and see who's taking mail. of course do not tell them you're doing this...do it as often as is needed. let them know they will be named in the eviction because the guy they are with isn't paying rent. they may be paying him and not know he's pocketing the rent. either way they need to know they will be made a part of a public record for failure to pay rent. this eviction moratorium silliness will have lasting ramifications, especially for sketchy tenants. i'm current now on rents but will be even more unwilling to "work with" tenants at any level in the future. we keep hearing that "we are all in this together" but the fact is that so far ONLY landlords have been asked to go without income AND deliver free housing entirely at their own expense. we saw PPP loans for every segment of the market, we see the FED buying corporate debt to ease cash flow, we have generous unemployment checks being delivered. we see that pelosi and trump are expecting to lob out another $1,200 check soon. mark my words trump will come out in favor of a national eviction moratorium. --66.27.xxx.xxx

Mike, ca:. Tampering with mail us a federal offense. I was warned of this when I hand delivered a letter to my neighbors mailbox telling him his dog was chasing a barking nuisance. --216.155.xxx.xxx

Deb, a lot of things are illegal, like squatting in a property. Breaking that law is tame compared to what others would do.... --73.177.xxx.xx

One thing I don't know the answer to....what if you decide to sell the property? Are you not allowed to sell if a tenant is under lease during the moratorium? --99.92.xxx.xxx

A method I have used to get names is offer to take the extra bags of trash from the over-flowing trash bin. Or, if in the house to do repairs, if any medication bottles are lying about.....( and I say I don’t like to snoop! Well, actually, I don’t. But I gotta do what I gotta do to protect the investment....) --70.92.xxx.xxx

No. Hang in there. Elections coming up. No one in the US who is sane will tolerate this any longer. --71.104.xx.xxx

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