Holdover Tenant Required Pay Damages to Landlord for Not Leaving Rented Property at Time Lease Ends
The article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. When an agricultural lease ends, usually no problems arise, and the tenant gladly turns the farmland back to the landowner. A recent case out of Illinois highlights issues that can occur when farmland has multiple owners, and a co-owner wants to terminate the lease while the other co-owner wants the lease to continue. The current tenant in this case continued to farm the leased prop