That is precisely the situation I was in (except that the initial lease period was 6 mo.).
My problem is that we have someone in this thread saying that, even during the lease period, the landlord can simply refuse the payment of rent for any reason whatsoever, then cry to the court about non-payment of rent by the tenant, and start eviction. IANAL, but I call BS. Is it BS, or can a landlord legally play this dishonest game?
It's BS. A landlord can't legally do so in the middle of a lease.
From the way this person is describing it, he was one of those landlords who I previously stated I would be happy to never rent from.
He says he had it "down to a science", and although he says the tenants weren't the best people....he makes it abundantly clear that he was taking side paths to get them out, instead of going the legal way....because he did not have any legal grounds for eviction. So they might not have been the best, but they didn't break anything in the lease terms or state/federal laws to allow a proper eviction.
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