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Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:01 am to Layabout
I agree, I have not had to do any improvements in 5 years. Only thing we did was buy a new dryer and garbage disposal about a year ago. This is a condo unit in BR area, FYI to be specific it's a 2bdr 1.5 bath condo and we rent it for $900.00 a month. I am going to give her till this evening to contact me, and once I speak with her will go from there.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:03 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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You cant be a nice guy and be in the rental business. You'll get taken advantage of every time.
Yep. Everybody has a story. Some of them are even true. But even those will take advantage if you let them.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:04 am to Hawgeye
Also, I had an issue similar to yours a couple of years ago but without the special needs kid.
Very nice lady with a child and had lived in one of my places for three years. She lost her job but had found a new one. This was was in November though and not October, but not much difference time wise.
This is what I did for her...I knew tax season was just around the corner. I had my lawyer draw up a small contract between her and I. She gained employment but was behind on other bills and was about to have the electric cut off but needed a lot of her first pay check to pay that off. So, I let her slide on two months rent, but the contract I had her sign assured me that when she got her tax refund, I got those two months of rent back.
In the end, I helped her out for two months because she had taken care of my place and had always paid on time until something life changing happened. She paid me back rent out of her tax refund and everything was fine. She moved out about 6 months ago because she had finally saved enough to buy her own home.
3 months in to the new tenant, I have already had to evict them.
Point being, there are ways to help someone out where you still get what you are owed. If you have a good occupier, remember that. You're just one move from having true arse holes that do not pay their bills.
Very nice lady with a child and had lived in one of my places for three years. She lost her job but had found a new one. This was was in November though and not October, but not much difference time wise.
This is what I did for her...I knew tax season was just around the corner. I had my lawyer draw up a small contract between her and I. She gained employment but was behind on other bills and was about to have the electric cut off but needed a lot of her first pay check to pay that off. So, I let her slide on two months rent, but the contract I had her sign assured me that when she got her tax refund, I got those two months of rent back.
In the end, I helped her out for two months because she had taken care of my place and had always paid on time until something life changing happened. She paid me back rent out of her tax refund and everything was fine. She moved out about 6 months ago because she had finally saved enough to buy her own home.
3 months in to the new tenant, I have already had to evict them.
Point being, there are ways to help someone out where you still get what you are owed. If you have a good occupier, remember that. You're just one move from having true arse holes that do not pay their bills.
This post was edited on 10/25/16 at 9:06 am
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:04 am to baxter12
Yeap. The nice Person always loses in this situation. It always starts out like I'm sorry I will get you the rest next week then its then next week and on and on it goes. If you depend on this property to keep you afloat you best boot them. If this is extra income I would get tough and say starting next month I will need money no later than the 5th. Let her know you have been nice in the past but you have now come to a point where this is not acceptable practice any more.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:06 am to Hawgeye
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Do you have a good lawyer? If you have been taking partial payments from her for this long, you're going to need a good lawyer if you just up and evict her and put her on the street.
Partial payments are never a good thing...
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:07 am to Aspercel
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Partial payments are never a good thing...
No, never. Especially if the original lease does not have what he has been doing for the 1st and 15th.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:18 am to Hawgeye
Thanks again for the feedback! The lease is drawn up for the partial payments with 1/2 due on the 1st and 15th.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:23 am to Hawgeye
Of course most of our habitual lates know how to work the system and they still try to do partial payments 
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:29 am to Bucktail1
if you have to ask... I look at at like a business. It sounds to me like you may not have the stomach for rental property.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 9:58 am to baxter12
it's a business, I recently had to give a tenant the boot for a fairly similar situation, and yes she was hot, and yes, she made the offer of "isn't there anything I can do to work this out?" 
Posted on 10/25/16 at 10:24 am to baxter12
You don't sound to be cut out to be a landlord. Hopefully this isn't a retirement plan or anything.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 10:32 am to baxter12
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2bdr 1.5 bath condo and we rent it for $900.00 a month
Hell if you got $650 you would be ahead
Posted on 10/25/16 at 10:33 am to dukke v
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If it's in the BR area I would have a problem evicting them, just because there is nothing available.
There is plenty available in the BR area, I just moved here and had several options
This post was edited on 10/25/16 at 10:34 am
Posted on 10/25/16 at 10:54 am to Ed Osteen
Yeah, it has eased up a little.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 10:55 am to PairofDucks
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Parents of three small children, one of which was handicapped. Some vengeance is not worth pursuing.
Sounds like they have shitty parents. You probably would've done those children a favor.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 10:56 am to Ed Osteen
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BR area
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I just moved here
Thoughts and prayers
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:31 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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If it were me I would sit her down and let her know how close she is to getting evicted, come up with a plan to get caught up that makes sense, and give her one more chance.
Yep. I approve this message.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:45 pm to Aspercel
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Yep. Everybody has a story. Some of them are even true. But even those will take advantage if you let them.
I've only had to evict one person, and he was a friend of mine I tried helping.
Posted on 10/25/16 at 12:46 pm to eScott
I've had to evict way too many 
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