All Forum Posts by: Carson P.

I am in this same situation. I purchased a side by side with a detached garage. I renovated one side and leased it in a day at $775 to a quality tenant. I will be doing the other side eventually and plan to list it at $825. The side with the theoretically higher rent sits closer to the garage, and is on a different corner of the lot. That paired with the easy of how I rented the first side out is enough justification for me!

Think about a different situation though. What if you had a lease expire at a different time then the other and you raise to fair market rent before rerenting. Then one side would be paying more than the other just based on when the property was lease. I think this is probably more common than you would think.

Well apparently the wife was on house arrest. Because the police responded to the 911 call her officer was notified. She will be heading back to jail for drugs and not following the judges orders. The husband seems to be cooperating with me for now and claims he is going to correct the other lease breaches (or so he says). Stay tuned..

I also contacted a lawyer. He basically said what @Marcus Auerbach said, the threat wasn't directed to me so the lines are gray at best. He does not think it would be enough to push forward w/eviction. He advised that I cannot even threaten eviction during the order #15. So for now I am basically unable to do anything other than ask nicely to move or not even address it at all. At least the problem has been removed for now.

@Chad Nagel I think you are correct. At this point in time, advise from a lawyer is needed. Also, I am planning on talking with them to see if we can avoid the eviction route. Landlording overall has been a good experience. I am not turned off by this, I see it as an challenge I will have to overcome. I did not get into this thinking I was immune to these situations, I posted to gather a best course of action to move forward and keep my goals and property on track.

@Account Closed We don't live there, we are renovating the vacant side. I don't think I would call it a drug, house. The tenants have been quite until this. From my knowledge, there is not selling of drugs but there is use of drugs. Neither is acceptable, but I don't want to paint the wrong picture for others giving advise.

Overall I think I will have to schedule a meeting with both the husband and wife. I will ask them to leave peacefully in a time frame we both can work with (end of April). I will give them the deposit back if the unit is free of there junk. If not, I will be forced to serve an notice to vacate. At that point I will not negotiate and carry this thing through the end. In the mean time, If I see illegal activity, I will call the police without hesitation. 

@Marcus Auerbach you are correct the violence was not directed to me, however after the fight, the tenant stormed into the unit I am renovating which felt threatening. I have been documenting everything since purchase.

@Chris Gantz I would agree. I have instructed the tenant that has been decent to call the cops. I also agree with your thoughts on the moratorium is too broad. It leaves the landlord with little correct action enforcement for situation such as mine.

@Joe Seegers I really like your three options. Simple for the tenant to understand and not too aggressive towards them either. Seems pretty straight forward. From what I gathers, it will likely take option #2 and #3 combined. 

@Scott Mac We have been debating that. Honestly we keep coming back to the kids. We just aren't sure if child protective services is the right course but something does need to be done.

@Caleb Heimsoth This is not a ghetto that i purchased in. This particular tenant does not fit the average in the area. I do conceal carry, but that does not mean I want to have to use that option...

@Rick Stanton Appreciate the cash for keys advise. However, I would rather hold to my principle. I work hard for my seed money. I am not going to give it to a drug using POS. I would rather go all the way to an eviction ruling that "pay them". I would give a security deposit back but they won't see a dime of my money regardless if it in not the smart investment move.

@Caleb Heimsoth

I understand that I need to evict. However in Wisconsin the govern issued order #15 which states that I can serve a notice to terminate for 60 days which went into effect March 27th. The order only allows you to serve a notice to terminate and proceed with an eviction if it’s attached with a sworn affidavit that if the eviction does not proceed, there is imminent threat of serious physical harm.

I felt threaten on my on property. I can only imagine how my neighbors and future tenant will feel...

@Theresa Harris

Due to the fighting that was taking place, we left the property and called the cops. We did not feel safe there. I will be following back up with them tomorrow to see why they didn’t take action.

@Aaron K.

The tenant informing of this is the husband the women doing the drugs. It’s pretty sad as they have kids in the unit too. He is not doing much for being strict on who his wife has been allowing in the unit. Regardless, it does not sound like they will be self correcting this issues as I tried that with him over the past two weeks. The blow up today pushed it over the edge. That’s when we clearly did not feel safe remodeling the other side and left.

I’m looking for some guidance. I recently purchased a side by side duplex. One side was vacant and is undergoing a remodel (which I’m doing myself), the other side came with inherited tenants. When I took ownership, I sent a letter with the lease breaches. I was promised they would be fixed (unauthorized tenants living in the unit and garbage outside the unit). Some were fixed but the unauthorized people are still living there. They are on a m2m lease and are current on rent. Today I went there to do some finish work on the vacant side. The two tenants were yelling at eachother. Doors were being slammed inside and outside. At one point two guys were fist fighting. Needless to say it was chaos. It also smelled like weed and cigarettes.. I ended up having to call the cops. The cops basically showed up and left. No one was taken away.

The tenant called me and admitted that there are people doing hard drugs in the unit, two unauthorized people living there, and a slew of other things that would easy constitute for grounds of eviction.

My fiancé was with me today and she was shaking she was so scared with everything going on. We feel scared for our own safety to even step foot on our property.. Wisconsin has ban evictions but this is putting me and my fiancé is danger. Is there anything I can do?

I’ll be contacting a lawyer Monday but my thoughts are serve the 14 day notice of termination and see if they get out. If not, then file for an eviction hopefully I can still file on the basis of my own safety...

Thoughts?!