[RPPTL LandTen] Reasonable Accommodation - Untimely Rental Payments and Failure to Deposit Money in Court Registry

[Amanda Kison]

I'm confused - Are they claiming the inability to timely pay rent is tied to a disability under the ADA?

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Subject: [RPPTL LandTen] Reasonable Accommodation - Untimely Rental Payments and Failure to Deposit Money in Court Registry

I represent a landlord in an eviction, and received a letter today from legal aid, on behalf of a tenant, which requested a reasonable accommodation under the ADA and a local ordinance.  The accommodation is the "acceptance of rental payments upon certain conditions and stipulations."  We already filed the eviction long ago and would have gotten a default, had the courts not suspended them due to the coronavirus.  Does anyone think there is any merit to this being a reasonable accommodation, or have any insight based upon receiving something similar before?

Thanks,

Jordan

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