Of all the things that can go wrong during a tenancy, the least expected is death. Most landlords have never had to deal with this, but it’s good to keep in mind that – touch wood – it may happen. This is one landlord’s story of what happened when a tenant passed on unexpectedly and the brief chaos in the interval: A sudden call about the tenant’s demise The landlord, HJ, had rented out a 1,400 sq. ft. unit to a couple (a father and daughter) in the East Coast area. The tenant had a one-year lease and was about eight months into it. Then one morning, HJ woke up to see a text that stunned him: The tenant’s daughter had texted him to inform him that her father had passed away during the night. This was unexpected, as her father was still relatively young (in his mid-50s), and there had been no sign of any...