Comments on: How to Respond to Late-Paying or No-Paying Tenants

By: Deeds

Deeds — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:57:31 +0000

I Still don’t understand why people fell the prey of tenants not paying rents. But in my opinion if proper background check and documentation is done about the tenant their won’t be any trouble with your monthly payments.

By: asfd

asfd — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:42:53 +0000

Why can’t you just request they set up a direct deposit for rent?

By: Batangas Real Estate

Batangas Real Estate — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:49:21 +0000

What a great post! I can see that mostly of the owners problem is his/her tenants. If i do some agreement and at first they follow, then after some due dates and they failed to follow, i will just evict them instantly. Hope tenants would learn that house renting is a business too and paying on or before due date is a must.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:39:04 +0000

Thanks for your article. I like your approach. I’m wondering what you say to motivate your tenant to pay? And on precisely which day of lateness do you make your call?
For me, in Texas, it goes like this:
Day 4: late note get emailed and snail mailed out.
Day 6: Notice to Vacate goes up inside the front door of the property
Day 10: I file for eviction.

Would you spell this procedure out in your rental policies or would you just let them find out on their own how it works?

By: Office Space Washington DC

Office Space Washington DC — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:28:48 +0000

Wow, Great article very useful in real estate business. I like it your article.

By: Kevin Paffrath

Kevin Paffrath — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:52:44 +0000

I completely agree with ‘Boston renter.’ In states like MA or California (where I live), I find it is better to work with tenants by either getting them out of the property as soon as possible or finding some other solution. To clarify, but “getting them out of the property as soon as possible,” I definitely don’t mean eviction. The reason I agree with ‘Boston renter’ is because any tenant of mine has a much better hand (of cards) than I do as a result of possessing the property.

Being ruthless might only motivate a tenant to become a professional tenant (as in the movie Pacific Heights) and destroy the property while living rent free for months as they file multiple different forms of bankruptcy and perpetually delay the eviction process.

In fact, I would rather pay a rent to move out then evict them. That is, “Here’s $1000 to help you move. I hope you get back on your feet (somewhere else). Good luck!” And then quickly re-rent my property to another qualified tenant.

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