Even if it is extended past June 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's eviction moratorium will eventually expire. And, so will the other state and local eviction moratoriums around the country.

Once the basis for the moratoriums is gone, Andrew Rosenberg, a partner at Cassin & Cassin LLP, thinks landlords will start proceeding to enforce the default notices that they may have sent during the pandemic. While evictions were banned, default notices weren't.

"Once this burns off, and landlords are able to then move forward as they had in the past, I think you will see increased eviction proceedings," Rosenberg says. "To the extent possible, they'll potentially try and work things out with tenants, but they have mortgages and they have taxes. If people aren't going to pay, they're going to start to want their space back now that they can exercise, whatever the limited remedies they have are."

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Leslie Shaver

Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.