Evicted tenant moved back to NJ - Need attorney recomendation

[Kenny M.]

We rented an apt. to a woman who moved back to NJ after we sucessfully got her evicted from the apt. She was six months past due and she destroyed the apt. She owes around 9k in back rent and repairs. Does anyone know of any attornies in NJ that will file suit in NJ to help collect the past due monies? She works as a teacher in Northern NJ. I've called a few attornies in NJ, but they all wanted retainers an none worked off contingency. In NJ and CT, the attorney's I've worked with all worked off of contingency.

Can anyone recomend an NJ attorney to help collect on this?

[Charles Carillo]

@Kenny M.

I own properties in CT and my property manager will send past tenants that owe money to collections. The chance of you receiving any money is very minimal. As you have found, most attorneys are aware of this low chance of collection and at this point it might be considered throwing good money after bad. Personally, I would tighten up your background checks, which will not solve all problems or find all problem tenants, but it will minimize the chances of this happening again.