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When The Only Good Tenant Is A Gone Tenant
Like many cities, Washington, DC has landlord-tenant laws that really do protect a tenant's rights.  It is extremely difficult to get rid of a tenant who is paying rent, even after the lease expires.  If the tenant is a total deadbeat, it is very difficult to evict.
In addition to making evictions a major challenge, the law protects tenants whose homes are for sale.  When an offer comes in on a tenant occupied house or apartment, the seller cannot sell until the tenant "rejects" the right of first refusal.  And the tenants, even if they don't have two cents to rub together, have a bunch of months to make up their minds.  
I once acted as a buyer broker for a tenant who held up the owner of his Logan Circle townhouse for about four years, and during that time, the value dropped from something in the low $300's to the price the tenant matched of $185,000.  At settlement, it was pretty clear that the seller and his agent had little love lost for the tenant/purchaser.  And it was so unpleasant that, at one point, I excused myself, went into the ladies room and had a huge crying jag.  But it ... more

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