 Eviction (by Heather gilbert [WA]) Jan 15, 2017 4:47 AM
 Eviction (by AGFD [MA]) Jan 15, 2017 4:50 AM
Eviction (by Barbara [VA]) Jan 15, 2017 6:02 AM
Eviction (by JR [ME]) Jan 15, 2017 6:37 AM
Eviction (by Neal [TX]) Jan 15, 2017 10:04 AM
Eviction (by Moshe [CA]) Jan 15, 2017 10:54 AM
Eviction (by Still Learning [NH]) Jan 15, 2017 12:00 PM
Eviction (by RathdrumGal [ID]) Jan 15, 2017 12:20 PM
Eviction (by Barb [MO]) Jan 15, 2017 2:01 PM
Eviction (by plenty [WA]) Jan 15, 2017 7:50 PM
Eviction (by Heather gilbert [WA]) Jan 16, 2017 9:01 AM
Eviction (by Vee [OH]) Jan 16, 2017 10:01 AM
Eviction (by Robert Phaedra [NY]) Jan 17, 2017 1:13 PM
Eviction (by Heather gilbert [WA]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 4:47 AM
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State Specific Question About: WASHINGTON (WA)
Is there a "away to stay" or against evicting tenants in mid winter with small children or elderly? They get their rent every month. This is a second time in a year that we've been late. This is our down time. They understood that when we moved in. They were OK with it. Considering our business is seasonal. We have children ages 11,10,9,&6 also have our Papa who is 75. We have until the 17th to pay full. Or out. --66.249.xx.xxx |
Eviction (by AGFD [MA]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 4:50 AM
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Pay up or get out deadbeat. If you dont have the money to pay your rent borrow it from a friend or relative so you owe them instead of the landlord --108.49.xx.xx |
Eviction (by Barbara [VA]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 6:02 AM
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The way to avoid this in the future is to realize this is your down time, and save money to cover your down time. Why is it the LL should be compensating for your down time? --68.107.xxx.x |
Eviction (by JR [ME]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 6:37 AM
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The fact that you parade your children and elderly papa as human shields to protect you from fulfilling your obligations is despicable. IMHO. --45.46.xxx.xxx |
Eviction (by Neal [TX]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 10:04 AM
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Go to your, health and human services office, they might have something for you. --216.4.xx.xxx |
Eviction (by Moshe [CA]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 10:54 AM
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I don't know anything about WA, but you need good advice if you seriously want to preserve your tenancy. Maybe legal aid can help you.
You must keep in mind that your basic relationship with the landlord is based on regular and prompt payments of rent. To many landlords, myself included, your failure to pay on time justifies termination of your tenancy, simply because dealing with late payments is beyond what I am willing to do.
There are several ways to approach this problem, although your question is not one of them (not evicting tenants in mid winter with small children or elderly). Such an approach, while helpful to tenants, would not be fair to landlords. Weather, children, elderly notwithstanding, you have not shown any suggestion of a solution that would support the landlord's needs. and therefore does not qualify as a solution.
Lets look at the landlord's promise that they were OK with the instability during your down time. You say that they understood that when we moved in. Was that promise explicit? How do you know that they were OK with it? Did they understand that it might result in late or unpaid rent.
Do you have prospects that the rent is merely late and that you will be able to catch up in a reasonable amount of time? If not, then there isn't much to negotiate with the landlord. Without a genuine expectation that the landlord will ultimately receive what is due to him, you cannot really expect him not to want to exchange his property to a profit-making status.
--47.139.xx.xxx |
Eviction (by Still Learning [NH]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 12:00 PM
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I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt that the entitled way your question was phrased was not what you meant. Instead of "they get their every month" and can I not be evicted because I have children and elderly, I am going to focus on the temporary income down time and fact that you have paid on time for 10 out of 12 months on time. For tenants that typically pay on time and have a "hiccup", I am more willing to work with them if I have paid at least 50% of the rent with a plan they can live up to before month's end by the 5th of the month (when I would normally begin the eviction process for non-payment). City welfare, local churches, school social workers, food banks, soup kitchens, and womanade are all local organizations set up to help individuals or families that need occasional help with rent/food/medical etc. --73.253.xxx.xxx |
Eviction (by RathdrumGal [ID]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 12:20 PM
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Have you been to St. Vincent de Paul and area churches asking for rental assistance? Many churches will help with partial rent payment, so you may need to ask for help from several churches. --68.156.xxx.xx |
Eviction (by Barb [MO]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 2:01 PM
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Having a family has nothing to do with paying your rent. That rent, followed by utilities, should be the first thing you pay each month. If you know you will have a slow time, you either set aside money all year so you can pay it during your slow times, or you set up a payment plan with your LL so that you pay more when you have it to cover when you do not.
If you cannot pay based on your current employment situation, go get another job to help your family. Flip burgers, deliver pizza, work a cash register - something.
You have an obligation to pay your bills. Rent is your first bill. --64.251.xxx.xxx |
Eviction (by plenty [WA]) Posted on: Jan 15, 2017 7:50 PM
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No sorry there is not. You'd be smart to pay or leave without suffering the filing of an eviction. It will be harder to start over with an eviction... Harder tgan figuring out how to pay the rent. Sorrry that's not what u would like to hear. Do whatever you can to pay in full as that date us approaching quickly. Best to you and your family. --66.87.xx.xx |
Eviction (by Heather gilbert [WA]) Posted on: Jan 16, 2017 9:01 AM
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Just let everyone know.him disabled and unable to get a job. Also we had 4 month worth of rent saved. We have had 3 deaths, car accident, and other medical emergencies. Thanks for the debeat and shields comments. That's one way of not judging or anything of the sort. --24.113.xxx.xxx |
Eviction (by Vee [OH]) Posted on: Jan 16, 2017 10:01 AM
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Rent works a lot like dairyman or the gas station, except in monthly portions so if you stay you must pay, nothing complicated with rent. --76.188.xxx.xxx |
Eviction (by Robert Phaedra [NY]) Posted on: Jan 17, 2017 1:13 PM
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Unfortunately life's misfortunes do not absolve you from paying rent on time. If they did, you could use them as excuses not to make your car payment, electric, groceries, cable, etc. and suffer no consequences. We all live with unexpected things happening from time to time, but we still must fulfill our obligations. Why do tenants think that if something bad happens, their landlord will loan them money? Which is what they are doing, if you don't pay. If you owned your home, would you call the mortgage company with your excuses and expect them to say "ok don't worry about your payment this month"? --134.179.xxx.xxx |
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