HELP***Week to week tenant eviction

HELP***Week to week tenant eviction

Member since 2022 · 10 posts · 5 votes

I've Been renting all four rooms in my house out individually for about 10 months now. Usually no issues. Tenants have come mostly by word of mouth through some local tradesman. Recently I've had 2 guests that were messy and accessed the two rooms that weren't currently rented. I invoiced an extra 25 dollars for part of the cleaning that I needed done extra and it was disregarded. Theyve treat it as if the whole thing is rented to them. I wasn't sure what I was gonna do. That's when I just decided to bill for biweekly cleaning and install hallway cameras to verify the rooms aren't accessed by anyone unauthorized. I felt like they weren't willing to work with me. When I brought up the cleaning fee he threatened to just leave once the end of the month was up and he'd have his gf clean for free which has not happened to this point already.  This was days ago. After the invoice was disregarded I decided I might try just using a rental management company. I guess that was a super long write up for me to just ask the eviction process I should go with? I've already gave them notice by text That I wanted the house vacated by march1st. Does anyone have any insight for the next steps. I plan on being on the road here for work in the next day or two and wanted to try and make sure I have everything covered before I leave. Anyone that can help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 

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Bruce WoodruffPro Member
Contractor/Investor/Consultant · San Diego / Phoenix · Member since 2021 · 12k+ posts · 15k+ votes
2y

@Jesse Valdez you really need to get out of the landlord business. Sorry to be blunt, but you were doing everything wrong that you possibly can do. In my opinion you're lucky this is not way worse. Druggies without a lease.....?

Get an attorney and get these losers out then hire a property manager to properly vet any future tenants!

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  • Member since 2021 · 4 posts · 3 votes
    1y
    Quote from @Jesse Valdez:
    Quote from @Mark Brown:

    So many things here. 

    Firstly, I think this might actually be a good situation. You're learning about the eviction process, tenant screening (never "word of mouth" again), the power of a lease WHEN not IF a neutral third party needs to be involved, tenant/landlord laws, and managing tenants who don't care about your business the way you do. By the end of this you'll know more than a double-digit percentage of landlords. 

    Here is the order I would follow:

    1. Go to bard.google.com and ask this LLM for tenant legal codes, articles, sections, and laws for evicting tenants in your city and state. Read those relevant parts and figure out how far in advance you must give eviction notice, how to handle evictions with no lease, etc.

    2. Be ready and willing to change locks and give remaining tenants a key

    3. Start doing showings for their room so they get the idea that they're evicted

    4. After a grace period of 1.5 days give another notice and mention legal action or law enforcement

    5. Pack their items, change front door locks and give new locks to other tenants. Call cops if they keep returning.


     Thank you. And yes this will be a huge learning experience. I'm hoping they'll just go at the end of the month. I'm kind of in limbo right now holding off to see what happens. This and having to be in texas on the 27th will make it difficult to deal with. Never ever going off word of mouth again. Either short term rental apps or lease from here on out. Door locks are all coded and changeable right from my cell from anywhere. But I know I can't just lock people out. This will teach me alot. What my question is is what do motel owners do when people book more than 30 days. And decide to stop paying? Do they have to use an eviction process as well? Thank you for the well written and not rude reply. I do appreciate it. And appreciate the input. Thanks. 


     What coded locks do you use for the interior doors? 

  • Member since 2023 · 188 posts · 111 votes
    1y

    This is the time I use muscle over legal. You are in a deep **** if they declare tenancy and eviction can be extremely painful. (A lot of states, they can easily pull emergency assistance, and the court case get automatically dismissed) If they are pro at this, you have no way to win without a super experienced PM and legal team. If somehow you can prove that they lived there less than 30 days, call the cop and put a trespassing. A lot of time, this will scare the people out of the property rather calling the cop agrees to issue a trespass or not.

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