The scenario is: landlord or lady intends to ask the tenant about the rent (because money from their account is not there to be withdrawn from) only finding the tenant’s corpse, meaning they are not alive. Whether there is foul play involved or it’s self inflicted (suicide): does that circumstance alone just “erase” the tenant’s due rent?

It may be shifted onto the roommates (if he has one, but in this case there’re none) and even they had company: it’s not their problem as the landlord or lady only speaks to the tenant who signed the lease but that’s not possible since the tenant passed. Would the landlord or lady just ask for the tenant’s last will & testament instead?

  • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    They can’t go after (for example) the deceased person’s family for the money, unless those family members were specifically cosigners on the lease.

    This is “cant” as in “they dont have standing to”, not “cant” as in “they are legally prohibited from”.

    Debt collectors can, and often do try to collect from heirs. The heirs dont have to pay, but they often dont know that, and the debt collectors obviously wouldn’t tell them.