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The Apartment Will Be Filthy |
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Dear Edith: Would like to ask you if a tenant will not let you, the landlord, look at the apartment and do any cleaning, can you have him forced to move? Recently he became widowed and nothing has been done. He will not get a woman in to clean and his daughter does not come around. I am afraid the apartment will be filthy. |
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If your tenant doesn't want to let you in, you probably can't inspect the apartment. And you can't tell him how to live; you can't dictate his housekeeping style. You do have some remedies. If he's on a lease, you can remind him to leave at the end of his time. If he has no lease and is simply on month-to-month tenancy, you can give him a month's notice to move, from a date before his rent is due. After he does leave, if the place is as filthy as you suspect, you can deduct the cost of cleaning the apartment from his security deposit. transactions dovetail and it almost always works out. |
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Edith
Originally published on October 2, 2005 |
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