Ray From Cleveland
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- Aug 16, 2015
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In all seriousness, a landlord has ways to make a non-paying tenet's life miserable, and should serve notice that anyone caught with the means to pay but refusing to do so will end up in civil court.
It can and will go to court anyway. All of my tenants are working and paying rent. But if I had one taking advantage of this nonsense, that doesn't mean I can't sue them. In fact I don't even have to wait until the moratorium ends. I can sue them once a month for back rent if I like.
Now thankfully, I only had to do that once in the near 30 years I've been doing this. But the court allowed me to sue for all my legal expenses, my time off of work and court costs. If the tenant is working and just being an asshole by not paying rent and me not being able to kick them out, I can have their wages garnished for however long it takes until they repay me in full.