landlord dies - tenant won't pay rent

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legal33

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Hi,

When a landlord dies and the tenant stops paying the rent and the executor has no interest in collecting the rent, what can the beneficiaries do to have the rent paid into the Estate?

Thanks,
 
The executor has a duty to collect the rent. If he or she makes no effort to collect it, the beneficiaries (or any one of them) should write formally to the executor pointing that out, and advising the executor can be held personally responsible for any shortfall in the estate.

[In most cases, it is a matter that concerns only residuary beneficiaries.]
 
legal33 said:
Hi,

When a landlord dies and the tenant stops paying the rent and the executor has no interest in collecting the rent, what can the beneficiaries do to have the rent paid into the Estate?
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Are we talking a lot of rent and over a long period? Why hasn't the executor evicted the tenant? Is the house to be sold?
 
Bronte said:
Are we talking a lot of rent and over a long period? Why hasn't the executor evicted the tenant? Is the house to be sold?
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Oh sorry. It is a 50 acre farm, not a house. The rent due will be about €5,000 by the time probate is finished. The farm won't be sold.
 
legal33 said:
Oh sorry. It is a 50 acre farm, not a house. The rent due will be about €5,000 by the time probate is finished. The farm won't be sold.
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Is the farm worth much, is one person inheriting it, does 5K amount to a lot in relation to the value of the 50 acres, as in, is this worth bothering about.

As is usual in these stories there is more in the non telling than the telling of what is happening.
 
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