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I've been a LL and I've been a tenant. The Landlord is the last to get paid when bills exceed income, because the tenants KNOW it will take a while to evict them. The electric can be shut off quickly, however. I have had a tenant tell me he couldn't pay on time, while smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer. Yeah, that will make you bitter.
And that wasn't even the worst - I've heard of tenants who move in with no intention of EVER paying rent. In some states it will take 6 months to get them out, that's 6 months of free living for them. Total scam.
Meanwhile the LL has to keep paying HIS mortgage and other bills.
Not sure how someone can sleep comfortably at night knowing their living situation is unstable.
In California, you can bet your sweet bippy that every tenant in arrears knows his or her rights. And if they don't, there are plenty of free legal aid people to tell them. They're notified every step of the process. They even know when the sheriff's deputies are scheduled to arrive to escort them out of the house. Our tenants were so full of their "rights" they tried to tell me the deputies were there to protect them from ME. LOL!
So I'm not sure why you think they don't sleep well. I'm the one who didn't sleep well, wondering if they had sneaked another person not on the lease (and thus not on the eviction notice) into the house. Which means the whole process would start over again.
In California, you can bet your sweet bippy that every tenant in arrears knows his or her rights. And if they don't, there are plenty of free legal aid people to tell them. They're notified every step of the process. They even know when the sheriff's deputies are scheduled to arrive to escort them out of the house.
So I'm not sure why you think they don't sleep well. I'm the one who didn't sleep well.
I figured someone like that would be ineligible for a lease renewal
I figured someone like that would be ineligible for a lease renewal
Who said anything about a lease renewal? Once they're in, whether it's a month-to-month or yearly lease situation, it can take a long time to legally evict - if the tenant knows how to play the game, that is. Heck, they have entire sites/blogs on how to beat the system!
Who said anything about a lease renewal? Once they're in, whether it's a month-to-month or yearly lease situation, it can take a long time to legally evict - if the tenant knows how to play the game, that is. Heck, they have entire sites/blogs on how to beat the system!
And for years I thought if I didn't submit the lease renewal by the date on the form I would be homeless lol
This is why every eviction that we file, we add Jane Doe and John Doe - to cover just in case they claim that another person is living there, who wasn't named on the eviction.
Right now, we have a POS who first, about 6 months into the lease, said he'd be late on the rent, then called the health department on us because there had been a leak from the apartment above's bathroom, so his bathroom ceiling was open (so that we could see if the leak repair we had done right away had worked, before we put back in the ceiling). Then he tried to deny us access to the unit to effect the repair. Fortunately, the POS didn't pay the rent on time, so when he started to pull this crap, we just filed the eviction for non-payment of rent, which in our area is really the only way to get someone out quickly.
So now, he texted us a picture showing another supposed ceiling leak, but is again denying us access. Fortunately, since water leaking is an emergency, we will be able to legally enter while he is at work. But who knows how much damage will have been done to the unit before we can get in there?
We took a risk on this one. He had been living with family for many years, and then the family home was sold, so this was going to be his first time renting in many years. Had a job, but no track record. And sure enough, turns out he's a POS. We tried everything to get him to leave before we filed the eviction, so that he wouldn't have it on his record, even offered him back half of his security immediately upon move out, and possibly the rest, too, if we could get it re-rented quickly, but he wouldn't take it. He doesn't seem to realize that he'll have a tough time renting again now, since we had to file the eviction. He somehow thinks that the judge is going to look favorably on his non-payment of rent, which he won't. He'll be gone in a couple of months, and we probably won't lose too much, if the unit isn't badly water-damaged. But now, I don't think we will ever take anyone again who is coming from a situation where they were living with family, instead of renting from an unrelated LL.
We took a risk on this one. He had been living with family for many years, and then the family home was sold, so this was going to be his first time renting in many years.
They sold the house to get him out. I'd put money on it.
No way to prove it, though. No one's tenant screening is 100% perfect.
We lived in a converted house, in the garage apartment. Great landlords but the top much larger apartment was a revolving door. We lived there three years, and there were 6 tenants upstairs, most taking off in the middle of the night. One of the LL’s had a number of units and tried to talk sense to his partner, who only had this one rental property, and who kept renting to anyone because he was terrified of not having income for a month.
Second LL forced a sale to get out.
Our second landlord was SO horrible, we bought a house six months later.
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