Evicting Tenant for Running Illegal business in SFH - massage parlor...

Evicting Tenant for Running Illegal business in SFH - massage parlor...

Joe ConnellyPro Member
Member since 2022 · 5 posts · 1 vote

I did BRRR method for an awesome SFH in Williamsville NY. Tenant moved in July 1st and last week it was raided by police. Tenant was using this as an illegal massage parlor. I was notified by the Fire dept since they were involved due to risk of human trafficking. Police broke down the front door and found 1 girl inside & massage tables in each room. The police said the tenant had 4 other properties he was doing this work at. All were raided at the same time once they had him in custody.

I'm meeting with lawyer today to start the process for eviction.  Lease clearly stated no illegal business and I'm pretty sure he won't be able to pay rent without the additional cashflow he had coming in.

Tenant actually put the house address on a website for rub & tugs (rubmaps.ch)- that we are trying to get removed.  Unfortunately - it is based out of the Czech republic.  

Does anyone have any experience in this.....evicting the tenant, not getting rub & tugs.........

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  • Garrett BrownPro Member
    Rental Property Investor · Houston, TX · Member since 2024 · 517 posts · 554 votes
    2y

    Wow, that is definitely a first. It sounds like you are doing everything right. The website will be difficult to do from my experience with out of country websites promoting illegal activites. The FBI could help but they are overwhelmed in general to put manpower on this but you never know. Let us know how this plays out!  

    Hopefully this has a happy ending for you......ok I'll see myself out. 

  • Investor · Austin, TX · Member since 2017 · 107 posts · 89 votes
    2y
    Lurid story, but boils down to a basic eviction for cause as you've laid out.

    You can send an email to the domain owner for that Czech site, but I would probably leave it at that. You are unlikely to run into prospective tenants who know about it, and if they do, you may think twice about why that is and whether you want those tenants.
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