NEW YEAR RESOLUTION
Knowing that the eviction process will take longer, I will demand rent as soon as it becomes due.
Under current law, tenants have five days to file an answer to an eviction action answer, excluding weekends and judicial holidays. Yet a new law will give tenants ten days to respond, elongating the eviction process, a concerning topic we discussed here.
What this means is that if an owner hesitates in servicing a 3-day notice to pay rent or quit and commence an eviction action if rent is not paid, they can potentially lose months of unpaid rent.
Housing providers should have a blanket policy of demanding rent whenever it is late and explain to all renters that out of fairness to everyone in the building, this policy applies to all tenants.