{"id":12668,"date":"2020-04-09T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/?p=12668"},"modified":"2023-07-22T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T15:36:37","slug":"should-you-pay-rent-during-the-covid-19-eviction-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/should-you-pay-rent-during-the-covid-19-eviction-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Pay Rent During The Covid-19 Eviction Moratorium?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you decided not to pay rent in April 2020, you are in good company.  About <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"31% of renters did not pay on time (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nmhc.org\/research-insight\/nmhc-rent-payment-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\">31% of renters did not pay on time<\/a>, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council.  Clearly this is a time of financial hardship for many, and governors everywhere have announced a halting of foreclosures and evictions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/content-manager\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"350\"><br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Ignore The Headlines &#8211; Bad But Not So Bad<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> So far, all of the headlines have said 1\/3 of America is not paying their rent.  That sounds horrible, but that&#8217;s the problem with sensational headlines.  Everyone reads it and assumes we dropped instantly from 100% of people paying rent to every third household becoming deadbeats.  It&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just the month prior, for rent due March 1st, prior to almost all of the USA Covid-19 spread, only 81% of households paid their rent on time according to the same data source, the NMHC.  And that was the month following all-time highs for the economy on many fronts (record low unemployment with record high stock markets).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also helps to look at one year prior, where 82% of households paid rent on time.  So 81% to 69% is the number.  Yes, it&#8217;s a big blow to landlords.  An increase from the usual 19% delinquent renters to 31%.  More than a 50% increase in late or unpaid rent.  But it&#8217;s not the mass wave of deadbeats suggested, where an apartment complex has 300 paying tenants and suddenly 100 of them stop.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Any Data Bias?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are always mindful of any strange bias sources in the data.  The 69% number comes from rent-collection and property management software  such as Yardi \/ Appfolio.  Who uses these?  Mostly large, multi-family property managers who own big apartments complexes.  There is a large number of tenant and landlord relationships that use more old-fashioned methods: the monthly check, or monthly cash payment.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether or not smaller landlords will see better payment patterns in unclear, but I would lean towards slightly better than the 69%.  The relationship is more personal than a big, faceless company, and unfortunately collections is probably more stringent, with tenant rights not always respected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you decided not to pay rent in April 2020, you are in good company. About 31% of renters did not pay on time, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council. Clearly this is a time of financial hardship for many, and governors everywhere have announced a halting of foreclosures and evictions. &nbsp; &nbsp; Ignore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[394],"tags":[97,137],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v22.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should You Pay Rent During The Covid-19 Eviction Moratorium? - Real Estate Topics, Tips, and Guides<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.renthop.com\/blog\/should-you-pay-rent-during-the-covid-19-eviction-moratorium\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should You Pay Rent During The Covid-19 Eviction Moratorium?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you decided not to pay rent in April 2020, you are in good company. 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