What is the name of your state? NC
These are the same tenants from my thread posted April 26 that had given a 30 day notice and then retracted it two weeks later. I followed advice given, corresponding only by mail and indicating that I would honor their lease until it expired at the end of the year but would not let them out of the lease before then. The woman called to thank me and then apologized for her husband writing a bad check for May's rent and begging to be allowed to make payments on it ( it didn't bounce probably because the PO workers usually walk anything mailed on site back to my PO box within a few hours instead of sending it through the main system that would take a day or two and I cashed it right away...so any of his other checks sent out of our town may have bounced instead). I later saw on his Facebook page that he purposely wrote what he thought would be a bad check because he thought they'd be moved out. He has since removed the post but not before I made a screenshot of it. June's rent payment was via money order.
A neighbor of theirs that also has problems with the man ( sneaking up on her from behind, she is a veteran with PTSD, and has confronted him about it and about them leaving their cat outside for days while they go on vacation, was told by the man that she won't need to worry about the cat because they were moving out by July 1st. Yesterday he told her they were taking their cats to their new house. Although there is a good chance that the man is lying as he often does, they may actually be planning to sneak out without notice, breaking their lease and non payment of rent. I don't want to confront them ahead of time, but if they do leave should I immediately file a breech of lease or wait to see if they send the rent. Because of when they receive SS our agreement is that they have the rent to me around the 5 to 7th of each month. I've never had to do anything like that before. I know that I could keep their deposit for back rent but when they moved in (what I thought was a nice elderly couple with plans to stay for years), I lowered the deposit for them and it wouldn't cover a full month's rent.
These are the same tenants from my thread posted April 26 that had given a 30 day notice and then retracted it two weeks later. I followed advice given, corresponding only by mail and indicating that I would honor their lease until it expired at the end of the year but would not let them out of the lease before then. The woman called to thank me and then apologized for her husband writing a bad check for May's rent and begging to be allowed to make payments on it ( it didn't bounce probably because the PO workers usually walk anything mailed on site back to my PO box within a few hours instead of sending it through the main system that would take a day or two and I cashed it right away...so any of his other checks sent out of our town may have bounced instead). I later saw on his Facebook page that he purposely wrote what he thought would be a bad check because he thought they'd be moved out. He has since removed the post but not before I made a screenshot of it. June's rent payment was via money order.
A neighbor of theirs that also has problems with the man ( sneaking up on her from behind, she is a veteran with PTSD, and has confronted him about it and about them leaving their cat outside for days while they go on vacation, was told by the man that she won't need to worry about the cat because they were moving out by July 1st. Yesterday he told her they were taking their cats to their new house. Although there is a good chance that the man is lying as he often does, they may actually be planning to sneak out without notice, breaking their lease and non payment of rent. I don't want to confront them ahead of time, but if they do leave should I immediately file a breech of lease or wait to see if they send the rent. Because of when they receive SS our agreement is that they have the rent to me around the 5 to 7th of each month. I've never had to do anything like that before. I know that I could keep their deposit for back rent but when they moved in (what I thought was a nice elderly couple with plans to stay for years), I lowered the deposit for them and it wouldn't cover a full month's rent.