To clarify, the original lease does not expire until Feb 2011. However the original tenant had moved out since April 2010 without paying rent because she said she got new people to rent the house on her behalf. When we went to court, the judge said we have to sue her in small claims court to get...
The original tenant wanted to come back to stay in the house next year. We're afraid that if we change the locks without ending the original lease we're in the wrong and the court may make us pay for damages.
My original tenant sent me an email saying she is vacating the premise. She then sublease the house to another tenant, which broke our lease. We found out and told the new tenant to pay us rent instead of paying rent to the original tenant. We took the original tentant to court to evict her but...