TSSA does not provide legal guidance in the online community, but I did want want to share a quick response to give you some direction. If you are using the TSSA rental agreement and forms related to eviction, the holdover form does state "Your failure to immediately vacate may subject you to the rental agreement remedies of eviction, overlocks, cutoff of utilities paid for by lessor, and holdover rents."
Please give our office a call if you'd like to walk through your specific scenario with a staff member.
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Kristy Spurr
Executive Director
Texas Self Storage Association, Inc.
(512) 374-9089
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Original Message:
Sent: 09-13-2024 11:03 AM
From: Sara LeFlore
Subject: Payments During 15 Day Termination Notice
We are working on evicting a tenant. Our first eviction case was dismissed.
We are attempting to start the eviction process over and have just sent a 15 day termination notice. The tenant has not paid rent in over 60 days. I understand we cannot attempt to evict and go through the foreclosure process at the same time, but are we able to still send past due notices and charge late fee's during this 15 day termination? I know it is unlikely she will pay rent, but is it ok to attempt to collect the past due rent from her without seizing the unit?
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Sara LeFlore
Copra Storage
New Waverly TX
(936) 788-8200
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