Read my prior post carefully.
There is no rent control, eviction of even paying tenants is done as a matter or course. Eviction for non-payment can be filed at any time after the rent is due, no grace period. The landlord need not accept cash or checks for payment, nor are the required to accept payment less than their demand, even if the demand is fraudulent and more than specified on the lease. Tenants must pay all rent specified on the lease even if the rental unit is uninhabitable, and even if has been completely destroyed through no fault of the tenant.
In fact, the tenant must pay all money the landlord claims into escrow in order to get a hearing, not that tenants ever win. Even if one does get a hearing, the landlord can demand and receive judgment on any arbitrary additional amount, even if the landlord doesn’t make the claim until the end of proceedings, giving the tenant no chance to defend against the claim. That additional amount must be paid immediately in order to appeal. There is no court record in Magistrate’s court, the entire case must be done over de novo.
Edit: Oh, and the tenant must file an answer in writing to the court within 10 days to the landlord’s complaint, or face immediate dispossession – even if they are not served, even if they are on vacation. Even if the tenant does respond, the landlord can get an immediate dispossessory warrant simply by saying that the tenant didn’t file an answer. Even if the answer is in the court’s records, the court won’t check.