WoW! Your Kidding - Tenant arrested 4 days before Eviction Setout

[Nick Sanders]

I have a tenant who was 3 and half Months behind on paying rent. We had to wait a few more weeks for a court date, had to wait another business wk to get a writ, had to wait another 2 wks to get a call from the Sheriff to schedule the setout. Finally get a date to evict that is a week away (in my mind I am thinking finally). NOT So Fast, contain that enthusiasm Mr Property Owner. My office manager gets a call from another tenant to make us aware that the tenant was arrested on property. The tenant got arrested a couple of days before the setout was to take place. Now several months into this and I will now have to pay to keep the tenants belongings in storage for a few months at my expense since they got incarcerated unless, I can get a family member to take it (which I seriously doubt at this point). I assume the tenant was aware of the pending arrest and took the consideration to take the kids across the street to a friends place just before the police arrived for the arrest.

You will never be short on entertainment or surprises in this Real Estate Biz

[Steve Vaughan]

Wait. I thought having a PM meant you're suppose to be sipping tea in your underwear as the checks roll in.

Who selected this tenant?   What lessons can we learn to avoid a nightmare tenant like this next time?  How much do they smoke?