Work with your landlords people.

A lot of folks have taken the I'm not paying back rents, or even communicating with my landlord on back rents, stance and now all the covid protections are gone.

Downvote this all you want, but the folks that are getting evicted are, by and large, folks who basically have just taken all the covid money, heating oil money, covid protects, and assumed those programs would be renewed in perpetuity, while making no/minimal effort to make the landlord, according to lease, whole.

A lot of landlords are mom and pop folks who have put a lot of sweat equity into their properties and are staring down a barrel of banks coming for their nest egg. The Maine real estate market has a lot of institutional buying pressure on it right now.

If you think a multi-state management company, or bank is going to be a better, more understanding, landlord you might as well start packing boxes now.

I don't know a single mom and pop landlord who relishes in evicting. Banks who get a multifamily on default, or hedge funds who buy that bank out of a portfolio? They are all about an ROI, points above reinvestment risk, and give zero fucks; They will see you out with the backing of a robust legal team.

If you are behind on rents talk honestly with your landlord and come up with a plan, or don't, and understand you have made your decision with eviction the result.