Automatic reject? Applicants evicted from previous rental when neighbor files overcrowding complaint. (apartment complex, leases)
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Let's say you have some applicants who previously lived unremarkably in an overcrowded house until a neighbor filed an overcrowding complaint which led to their eviction.
Would / should landlords automatically reject them on the basis of the eviction?
So which is it? Did they (you??) move out promptly, or were they evicted? You cant have it both ways.
I once rented a room in a house that was foreclosed; I moved timely, as did everyone else. Here I was simply using a hypothetical of an unreasonable "overcrowding" allegation involving 3 individuals in an (actual) 8BR house. There is a part of me that would love to take that to a jury - but apparently it is irrelevant to landlords whether the applicant prevailed in court.
You can't seem to decide whether they were evicted or just asked to leave and they left without a judge involved. It makes a difference.
If they were legally evicted, I wouldn't take them.
If they were asked to leave and left without causing problems, I probably wouldn't take them. Either they don't have enough income to pay for a place just for themselves, or else they are going to move in all their family and buddies, which is what cost them their last house.
I can do without the drama.
And if you are asking because you have just been evicted, OP, it is a mote point because you refuse to pay an application fee, so you couldn't even apply to rent from me.
??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Three individuals rented an 8BR house from a willing landlord. What's the problem? Where did you get the idea they are going to move in their family and buddies? I have never been evicted and I am asking because I think the situation described is totally ridiculous and unreasonable.
Yes X a million. I'd sell the property rather than rent to people who could mess up my property.
Funny you should mention that. I've finally had it up to "here" with problem tenants (and most tenants are not problems but a few ruin it for everybody) and I'm liquidating my properties and moving my money into financial instruments, not houses.
One bad tenant in 10 can poison a landlord to the point of just giving up and liquidating. I'm there now. I don't need this grief in my life.
I don't have an application fee. I have a credit check fee. Even better, my credit reporting service has the option of having the prospective tenant pay for their own credit check. I use that option, my hands never see the money.
It saves me two items on my income taxes, not having to declare the income and not having to declare the expense, because my hands never touched the money.
BTW I read through the applications and pick the best one. Only then do I ask them for a credit check. During the credit check period when I see their credit report I won't accept another tenant for a credit check until I have ruled out the current applicant. I won't send multiple applicants through credit checks at the same time, that's not fair. Or at least not fair in my book.
But if I see the word "eviction" anywhere on their report it's an immediate reject. I don't even want to hear the story.
Read this story below and give us your opinion. Tenants evicted for having too much income. You got a problem with that?
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The committee learned that not all of the full $258.4 million [Portland affordable housing bond] is up for grabs. The city recently purchased the 248-unit market rate Ellington Apartments in Northeast Portland with the goal of converting all of it into affordable housing. Bond funds are expected to repay around $37 million of the $47 million loan used to purchase the property in February.
For that to happen, every household in the complex earning more than 60 percent of the area's median family income eventually may have to be evicted, something Dame called "a PR problem" for the city.
I once rented a room in a house that was foreclosed; I moved timely, as did everyone else. Here I was simply using a hypothetical of an unreasonable "overcrowding" allegation involving 3 individuals in an (actual) 8BR house. There is a part of me that would love to take that to a jury - but apparently it is irrelevant to landlords whether the applicant prevailed in court.
It is only "unreasonable" when a judge finds it to be "unreasonable." Until then, it is your opinion.
There are well-established guidelines and protocols for housing that are in place to protect landlords, tenants, neighbors and communities at large. Violations pertaining to overcrowding are neither unnecessary nor "unreasonable." You can play David/Goliath with City Hall all you like, but if you're armed with a hypothetical sling, you're going to lose.
Let's say you have some applicants who previously lived unremarkably in an overcrowded house until a neighbor filed an overcrowding complaint which led to their eviction.
Would / should landlords automatically reject them on the basis of the eviction?
I decline any evictions if one comes up when I do a background check. I'm simply not going to get into discovery or go play Magnum P.I. to investigate to maybe let someone rent. Just not going to go through that. If you have a eviction it means something went wrong between you or the LL. Maybe him may be you. I don't wanna find out. Maybe I am wrong to do that but I'm going to err on the side of caution and decline it. Is it unfair? Yeah maybe.
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The municipality forced the issue; the landlord did not want to lose the tenants.
Then the LL should of written a letter and included his contact info telling the new LL how great tenants they are about to get
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Noncompliance with what? What's noncompliant about three people living in an 8BR house? In what way did they pose any health and safety issue? The city isn't forced to do anything, the city acted out of animus.
I don't buy that three people in a eight bedroom house were evicted on overcrowding. There has to be multiple people there and they were the only ones that had the lease
i decline any evictions if one comes up when i do a background check. I'm simply not going to get into discovery or go play magnum p.i. To investigate to maybe let someone rent. Just not going to go through that. If you have a eviction it means something went wrong between you or the ll. Maybe him may be you. I don't wanna find out. Maybe i am wrong to do that but i'm going to err on the side of caution and decline it. Is it unfair? Yeah maybe.
Then the ll should of written a letter and included his contact info telling the new ll how great tenants they are about to get
i don't buy that three people in a eight bedroom house were evicted on overcrowding. There has to be multiple people there and they were the only ones that had the lease
Read this story below and give us your opinion. Tenants evicted for having too much income. You got a problem with that?
Tenants are very unlikely to be evicted. If they don't qualify, they will be given a 90 day no-cause notice to vacate. It is only the tenants who dig in and refuse to go who will be evicted.
Of course, if that new low income housing project is located in Portland, each one of those tenants will get their thousands in relocation money. That curtails my sympathy.
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