It's always a good thing when your MF tenants get along right? Wrong!

[James Wise]

This was a new one for me today.

We have a side by side duplex. Had to evict both tenants. Move out day for one unit was today, the other unit is 9 days from today. 

The tenants did not vacate the premises so my guys show up with the movers & bailiffs this morning. Movers start taking everything to the curb and the guy from the other unit decides to let the evicted tenants move themselves & all of their belongings into his unit. Nothing we can do. Totally legal.

Frustrating...Very frustrating.

[Kimberly T.]

@James Wise I'm curious if now the sheriff won't be able to lock out the tenants at your subsequent eviction in 9 days:  I have heard of cases where a landlord files for eviction against Tenant A, then when the sheriff shows up, Stranger B is living in the unit and the sheriff can't kick out Stranger B because he/she is not listed on the eviction, so the landlord doesn't get the unit back and now has to start over with evicting Stranger B.

This is the reason I've been told that when evicting, you should name all occupants and then add "and John Does 1-10" just in case they've moved someone in to prevent the lock-out.  If you did that, you should be covered.

Let us know how things go.  Good luck!