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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?
I lived on campus once in an efficiency with my daughter. The upstairs neighbors were extremely noisy. I don't remember what all I did to scare them into moving out (didn't realize how many were up there until they were moving out, just knew there were a lot), but people were advising me what to do and I was doing the stuff that didn't seem too unethical. When they moved out it was a couple, the woman's brother and girlfriend, the couple's children, and the brother/gf's children all moving out. And they had five dogs too. When they moved out they just had some mattresses and not really any other furniture that I ever saw. All of this in an efficiency. I was so glad when they moved out. They weren't even students, so they weren't supposed to be there. They ended up having done something to the plumbing and the campus LL had to move me to another unit and the two units were shut down for months while they were being fixed. Do you mean that overcrowded?
As a landlord I would IMMEDIATELY reject any tenant who has an eviction reported in their background check IRRESPECTIVE of the prospective tenant's explanation/excuse.
I see the word "eviction" in any tenant screening, the application goes in the trash and the applicant is informed that their application is rejected.
Eviction is a court process so if they were evicted then it means they refused to leave and the LL had to get the law enforced through the court. I reject every eviction no matter the excuses.
There is a very big difference between being told to vacate and forcing a landlord to take you to court to get an eviction to get you out.
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Originally Posted by AZ Manager
Eviction is a court process so if they were evicted then it means they refused to leave and the LL had to get the law enforced through the court. I reject every eviction no matter the excuses.
It makes no difference to me. If you ever had any problems with your landlord I'll have nothing to do with you. The price is too steep for me, even to take a chance on one tenant if I have any inkling they have had landlord problems in the past.
Sorry. This isn't a court of law. My house, my rules. You cross a landlord I'll have nothing to do with you. I don't even want to hear your back story.
The reason we give them a chance to explain is many times these types of evictions are not targeted against the person whose name is on the record.
Example: how often do we advice others to name everyone in a rental on eviction papers? We do this to ensure we cover all legal basis as far as anyone occupying the property. So, lets say John and Jane rent a 3 bedroom unit. They let Kevin and Kathy move into on of the bedroom and they let Tom and Tony move into another. They also let Anita crash on the couch every 2nd weekend each month. As landlord, if you serve John and Jane, the others may never know of the eviction. Even if the others know, the natural reaction is to run away from the situation. Many never realize they were named and need to appear to have their names removed. So if the eviction as successful (or as in some states just the filing creates a record), the occupants could have really been victims themselves.
Heck we also know that an eviction filing could also have ended up with the landlord being found guilty of violations and the tenant actually winning. But, the filing is enough to create a record and if we don't look at dispositions, we could be penalizing the wrong person.
Now, if the eviction is on record with a disposition for the landlord, the person pretty much can forget about it going any further.
As a landlord I would IMMEDIATELY reject any tenant who has an eviction reported in their background check IRRESPECTIVE of the prospective tenant's explanation/excuse.
I see the word "eviction" in any tenant screening, the application goes in the trash and the applicant is informed that their application is rejected.
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR EVICTED TENANTS.
How about if this was a case of three unrelated individuals overcrowding an 8BR house? The landlord had NO problem with the tenants; a neighbor reported the overcrowding and the municipality forced the issue.
There is a very big difference between being told to vacate and forcing a landlord to take you to court to get an eviction to get you out.
The municipality forced the issue; the landlord did not want to lose the tenants.
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