Tired landlord, tenant not paying
How landlords 30 minutes away sold their East Side two-family with a tenant who'd stopped paying
A busy couple with four boys, a rental on the East Side of Binghamton, and a tenant who hadn't paid since June. Here's how they sold it as-is without starting an eviction.
- Where
- East Side, Binghamton
- The house
- Two-family
- What was going on
- Tired landlord, tenant not paying
- What we did
- Bought it as-is; they didn't have to evict first
- How long
- About 3 months from first call to closing
- Closed
- December 2025
The situation
A married couple owned a two-family on the East Side of Binghamton as a rental. They live about 30 minutes away, they’ve got four boys, and they are busy.
They’d put real money into fixing the place up. Then the tenant stopped paying in June. By September it was three months of rent gone, the water bill was running up on their dime, and they were paying out of pocket every month to keep the house afloat, with back taxes owed on top of it. The tenant had always been late or behind — this was just the point where it stopped making sense.
They hadn’t started an eviction. A realtor had told them what they could list it for. What they actually wanted was to sell it with the tenant still inside and stop thinking about it.
What we did
They got a letter from us in the mail and called us in September. We came out the following week and walked it with them.
The house had some hail damage, a roof that was getting old (not leaking yet), and some foundation work coming. Fine. Two units, decent inside — you can see the work they’d done.
Our offer: buy it as-is with the tenant in it, so they didn’t have to start an eviction, wait the unit out, or make repairs. Close as fast as we could.
It closed in December, about three months after that first call.
How it ended
They’re out from under that house. They didn’t have to list it, fix it, or take a tenant to court first, and they stopped paying out of pocket to keep it going.
If you’re in the same spot
If you own a rental around here with a tenant who won’t pay and you’d rather sell than fight it out in court, this is a normal deal for us. You don’t have to get the tenant out first. You don’t have to fix anything. Tell us what’s going on with the property and we’ll give you a straight number.
Photos
Real photos of this house, taken by us. Street numbers left out on purpose.
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