How can I rent an apartment when I have evictions and bad credit?

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asked Sep 11, 2023 in Real Estate - Renting by Vargass (7,020 points)
How can I rent an apartment when I have evictions and bad credit?

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answered Mar 16 by JaredMCQ (14,630 points)
To rent an apartment with evictions and bad credit you can have someone with good credit and no evictions on their record to sign the lease for you or have someone you trust or hire a lease guarantor agency guarantee.

You may also be able to find an apartment with a private landlord that would rent you an apartment with bad credit although the apartment may not be as nice.

If you have a roommate or a friend or family member that could sign the lease for you and they have good credit that could be a way of getting the apartment with bad credit.

It is possible to rent an apartment with bad credit and you can increase your chances of being able to rent the apartment with bad credit by offering a larger deposit to your landlord, finding a cosigner, or roommate and also highlighting any consistent income.

If you can provide the landlord up to a full year lease payment upfront that could also be another way to get into an apartment with bad credit.

A landlord can initiate an eviction process for non payment of rent for one missed payment or any missed payments by serving you the tenant with a pay rent or quit notice.

And then if the rent is not paid within a certain or specified timeframe then the landlord can then proceed with an unlawful detainer action.

If you're having trouble making a rent payment you should contact your landlord and let them known and try to work something out with them.

I've been late on a rent payment before and contacted the landlord and the landlord and I worked things out so I could stay and not be evicted.

I was good on my payments before and so that also helped.

Your landlord may charge late fees on the rent and sometimes they might waive the late fees if you're upfront with them and they've gotten the other payments on time.

When you rent you sign a lease that states that you will pay a certain amount of money each month on a certain date to be able to live there.

And failure to pay the rent can get you evicted or be charged late fees.

Most landlords won't evict you for being late or missing one rent payment but you should get in contact with the landlord.

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