Eviction record concern

[littleMike]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MA

I am living at rental house. For an uncontrollable reason, I need to delay my moving out date for 2 weeks, I failed to negotiate with my landlord to allow me to extend though I plan to pay additional rental fee.

After the lease expiration, if I stay for 2 additional weeks with payment, could the landlord file eviction which could enter my credit report?
I assume the landlord will need to send me a letter first before entering the legal eviction process in court. How likely this will ruin my credit record if I move out before 14 days notice?

Thanks for your advice.

L.M.

 

[FarmerJ]

It is not your credit reports that will be impacted in the way your might be thinking, It doesn't matter who initiated the end of the rental agreement but ill say it this way , EG your landlord gave to you proper notice to move out and then you failed to do so. Your LL will have to go to the courts and file for a eviction based on your being given proper notice to move out and you failed to do it >>> the other way around is if you gave your LL notice that you were going to move out and you failed to do it. In the very end as long as the court is satisfied that the notice given was proper or if notice was accepted then the court may or may not want to know why the notice was given but if the LL went so far that they had to file with the courts for you to leave when you were supposed to and didn't the court can still order for you to be out by x date and if you do not then the LL can follow your states law to have you put out. EITHER way this is not good, because say you do move into the one that wasn't ready for you till 2 weeks after you were supposed to be gone and now 2 years later are applying for a rental again and your application is run by a landlord screening / background check service that found the court records of you having been taken to court by this former landlord because you didn't leave when you were supposed to it becomes very likely that the LL you have applied to really wont give a damn about WHY you had to be taken to court even if it wasn't about a nonpayment based eviction , whats more likely is that the LL will see that on such and such date a landlord from your past had to take you to court and that will be enough reason that they may think that they too could have the same problem with you and will want to refuse to rent to you rather than risk you doing this again with them and decline your application. SO to avoid this if you have to go rent a storage locker and move your things to it then do that and go stay with friends or family till you can get into the new place .