> If the landlord tried to hold my feet to the fire over something so banal as rent being slightly late I would lawyer up immediately. Really? So you can pay

> If the landlord tried to hold my feet to the fire over something so banal as rent being slightly late I would lawyer up immediately. Really? So you can pay $500+/hr to be told pay your rent.... And I would argue that someone that wants to lawyer up because they dont feel they have to pay their rent on time is a tenant you want out of the house. The reality is once you send the notices most people will pay their rent and be less likely to be late in future as boundaries are set. And as someone that has tenants, there are people that need this treatment or you become their overdraft account and it will only get bigger and bigger until you send the eviction notice. And that's not to say there are exceptions. I've told someone to stop paying while they took time off work for cancer treatment, even thought they said they had savings as I know they didn't have much and wanted to take stress on them.