All Forum Posts by: Roger S.

It's not about being able to kick his ***. 

You want to stay within the law. If you do confront him, which it sounds like you really want to, bring a witness. 

As a landlord, your tenant can cause much more harm to you than you can to him. You stand to lose your rental and your home and future income by beating his ***. 

He will rent the place next door.

Be a business owner, not a referee.

 Wow.. that's not the response here. If I call them, they will show up if I ask them to. It's a small-ish town of around 9k and we have a fully staffed Police department that could accommodate a population twice that size. 

Oh yeah, unauthorized folks are ballsy when it comes to letting you know you shouldn't be there.. theIr tune suddenly changes when I let them know I'm the landlord and the only one trespassing is them. 

I wouldn't go in there with someone who is acting psychotic, and threatened to kill somebody! To what end? If the property is trashed, you wont change anything by going in there and having a look see. Serve the notice, get the guy out, then go in. Not worth the risk to your health, or even life in my opinion.

That said my lease has a provision that I can enter without notice in order to prevent massive damage to the property. If your lease has something like this, a kicked in door could let in a lot of rain which would cause massive water damage, or let in rodents, or whatever else.

I give proper notice (48 hrs here) and then just go in. You don't need permission because you have given them notice of intent to enter. I do let the police know the situation and they either show up or they dont. If you are concerned for your safety you need to tell them that and that you NEED them there. They should respond, that's their job.