Hubby and I are considering selling our rental property, a single-family home in a suburb of San Diego, California. One tenant has been there from the beginning, which was a bit over 20 years ago.

He is ‘disabled’, and I’ve written about him before on this board. He was slated for moving to section 8 housing a few years ago but decided he was just too comfortable where he was !! and didn’t want to move, so he gave up his place on the Sec 8 waiting list that now takes 10+ years to get to the top.

The tenant is estranged from his only living relative and there’s not likely to be any kind of reconciliation.

My big concern is that he will *use* his disability and refuse to move— excuses like he can’t find a place that he can afford, he doesn’t want to move out of the area & the area has no affordable housing for him, signing up for Section 8 will be another 10 years wait, he just doesn’t want to move, he is disabled and I can’t make him move, etc.

Hubby & I anticipate problems. I realize that one solution is to sell the place as tenant occupied. A different solution would be to terminate tenancy so the place will be sold without tenants. So here’s the question I guess, bottom line, if the tenant won’t leave and we do all the proper paperwork for eviction and judgments and stuff, is it possible the sheriff will actually come and physically move the tenant out of the house?

Thanks!

Are you subject to the California Tenant Protection Act of 2019?

Thanks hubba. Moshe no, I’m not subject to that.

Does San Diego have its own Tenant Protection Act?